At the same time that the American colonists were airing their grievances against the British government, Black slaves were doing the same thing with their respective colonial governments. In the mid-eighteenth century every colony, from New Hampshire in the North to Georgia in the South, had a population of slaves. In 1750 New Hampshire was home to 550 Black Americans and 26,955 white. By contrast, in Virginia in the same year there were 101,452 Black Americans and 129,581 white. Although not all Black Americans were slaves at the time, most of them were. In the period of the Revolution, freedom meant independence from England for white Americans. For many Black slaves, however, England represented freedom from bondage to American Patriots.