By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join ...

A: The Virginia colonists reacted to Dunmore's Proclamation with a proclamation of their own, to their slaves, which pointed out that Dunmore's Proclamation applied only to the slaves of Patriot ...

The first was Lord Dunmore's Proclamation of 1775; the second, Commander-in-Chief Sir Henry Clinton's Philipsburg Proclamation of 1779. The idea behind both declarations was to encourage the ...