In the American Revolutionary War, the British were fighting for themselves against the Americans and, further into the war, the French.
The majority of landowners were men, so not many women voted. There were more white landowners than black land owners in the colonies, resulting in the fact that African Americans were unable to vote. An influx of new colonists from Spain and France purchased land, as a result, they made a larger voting population than the British colonists.
A nonviolence anti-apartheid activists became Africa’s first black president, from 1994 to 1999
