> For the Southern colonies, participation in the American Revolution was part of their effort to maintain slavery. Slavery was legal to some extent in every c

> For the Southern colonies, participation in the American Revolution was part of their effort to maintain slavery. Slavery was legal to some extent in every colony, northern or southern, throughout the Revolution. Some states had (laudably) started to abolish it in whole or in part by the end of the war. Interestingly, Wikipedia indicates that the last Pennsylvanian slaves died in the 1840s, which seems surprisingly late.