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How Did Lord Dunmore Grant Slave Freedom?

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Lord Dunmore promised two times grant slaves freedom, once when the colonists resorted to force against British Authority and when asked to join “His Majesty’s Troops”. In June 8 1775 strong colonial protests following Lord Dunmore’s removal of gunpowder stored in the public magazine John Murray fourth man of Dunmore and the last royal governor of Virginia, fled Williamsburg to the ship H.M.S. Fowey. In November 15 after a series of raids on Norfolk. Dunmore issued a proclamation martial law.

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