Lesson 14:Thomas Peters A Remarkable Man

Peters stayed with the
Black Pioneers until the war
ended. He was promoted to
sergeant.
In 1779, the British
made an influential statement.
It was known as the
Philipsburg Proclamation.
Before, the British had only
granted freedom to
enslaved men. But the
British General Henry Clinton
Philipsburg Proclamation made the Philipsburg
Proclamation in 1779.
expanded the British offer.
Now enslaved women and children could also be freed.
They, too, had to run away from their colonial masters and
join the British forces. Then they would be free.
Historians believe that sometime after the Philipsburg
Proclamation, an enslaved black woman named Sally
escaped from her Patriot master. She reached a British
army camp. At some point, she met Thomas Peters. Later,
they married and had children.
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