Immediately after the Revolution, enslaved men petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for their freedom.

Immediately after the Revolution, enslaved men petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for their freedom.

1.Immediately after the Revolution, enslaved men petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for their freedom. Over sixty years later, African Americans in Philadelphia protested the loss of  their voting rights.

What argument would you make about the changing

political status of free

Black men between the Revolution and the early republic? What changed

, what stayed the same,

and why?

Primary sources to discuss:

•

“Slave Petition for Freedom in the Massachusetts Legislature” (1777)

•

“Black Philadelphians Defend their Voting Rights”

(1838) (hyperlinked here and