The side that was the first to offer freedom to the enslaved in return for fighting on their side were the British.
The British needed more soldiers to fight the Revolutionary war. They also needed American forces to be disoriented from within and they found a way to do both.
They issued a proclamation saying that any enslaved people who belonged to American colonists who chose to fight for the British would receive their freedom.
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