[Pelham]

The Royal government issued two proclamations which emancipated slaves during the Revolutionary War.

Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation in November 1775.

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lord_Dunmore_s_Proclamation_1775

And the Philipsburg Proclamation in June 1779.

http://blackloyalist.com/cdc/story/revolution/philipsburg.htm

http://www.ouramericanrevolution.org/index.cfm/page/view/p0422

[SoCal Pubbie]

Such a proclamation made after the path toward revolution began hardly addresses causation, does it?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Those proclamations only freed slaves willing to fight for the British. It didn’t end slavery.