In Philadelphia, John Hancock writes to Washington on behalf of the Continental Congress asking him to prepare winter quarters for his men. Edward Rutledge of South Carolina makes a motion to have Washington discharge "all the Negroes as well Slaves as Freemen in his Army." The motion fails.
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