Dunmore's Proclamation

(noun)

An historical document signed on November 7, 1775, by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the British Colony of Virginia.

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Examples of Dunmore's Proclamation in the following topics:

  • The First Emancipation

    • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
    • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
    • Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
    • After Dunmore's Proclamation, 500 Virginia slaves promptly abandoned their Patriot masters and joined Dunmore's ranks.
    • The governor formed them into the Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment.

  • Slavery and the Revolution

    • Others responded to Dunmore's Proclamation and fought for their freedom as Black Loyalists.

  • Slavery During the Revolution

    • In fact, Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
    • Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation offering freedom to all slaves who would fight for the British during the Revolutionary War.
    • Five hundred such former slaves from Virginia formed Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, which is most likely the first black regiment to ever serve for the British crown.

  • Jefferson, Slavery, and Race

    • Trying to reassert British authority over the area, Dunmore issued a Proclamation in November 1775 that offered freedom to slaves who abandoned their rebel masters and joined the British army.
    • The colonials, including Jefferson, opposed Dunmore's action as an attempt to incite a massive slave rebellion.

  • Emancipation

    • In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
    • The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S.
    • The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, outlaw slavery, or grant ex-slaves, called "freedmen," citizenship.
    • The Proclamation did not free any slaves in the border states or make slavery illegal.
    • Areas covered by the Emancipation Proclamation are shown in red.

  • The Northwest Territory

    • However, the war was a key part of a long offensive in the Ohio Country, which included the Beaver Wars (1650s), the Seven Years' War (1754–1763), Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1764), Lord Dunmore's War (1774), and the American Revolution (1775–1783).

  • American Indians and the New Nation

    • Rather than secure peace, the Treaty helped set the stage for the next round of hostilities between American Indians and British colonists along the Ohio River, and this would culminate in Lord Dunmore's War.

  • Pursuing Both War and Peace

    • The petition was rejected, and in August 1775, A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition (or the Proclamation of Rebellion) formally declared that the colonies were in rebellion.
    • The Proclamation of Rebellion was written before the Olive Branch Petition reached the British.
    • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
    • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
    • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

  • The Aftermath of the War

    • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
    • Although Lincoln's approach to emancipation was slow, the Emancipation Proclamation was an effective use of the President's war powers.
    • The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army.
    • They were nearly all freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
    • Slaves in the border states and those located in some former Confederate territory occupied prior to the Emancipation Proclamation were freed by state action or (on December 18, 1865) by the Thirteenth Amendment.

  • The War and Its Consequences

    • Following the peace treaty, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on October 7.
    • The proclamation outlined the division and administration of the newly conquered territory.
    • The proclamation created a boundary line (often called the proclamation line) between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast and American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
    • The proclamation was less about respecting or preserving the American Indians' rights to their land; rather, it gave the British Crown a monopoly on all future land purchases from American Indians.
    • Indeed, the Royal Proclamation itself called for lands to be granted to British soldiers who had served in the Seven Years' War.