Lord Dunmore knew that the idea of armed slaves* exacting revenge on their masters would scare the bejeezus out of the wig-wearing colonists. In an even more bubblegut inspiring move, the governor formed the eponymous Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, a British military unit composed of African freedom fighters. Perhaps the Ethiopian Regiment’s uniforms, featuring sashes inscribed with the words “Liberty to Slaves,” most aptly described the self-freed warriors’ revolutionary position.
