Black Tories
From Whitewashing the Founding Fathers:

"Rough Crossings..." is the story of thousands of blacks in the 13 American Colonies who rallied to the British lines during the Revolutionary War because they believed that is where freedom lay.

They were right in that they would have been emancipated some three decades earlier, all things being equal. I, too, might well have been an American Loyalist*.

[link via LewRockwell.com]

*Thanks, Adam.