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African Americans in the Revolutionary War
10/17/2016 African Americans in the Revolutionary War | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American by era/war for independence/essays/ African Americans Revolutionary war1/5 Detail of Crispus Attucks' death from"The Bloody Massacre" by PaulRevere, 1770. (Gilder LehrmanCollection) African AMERICAN SOLDIERSA frican Americans in theRevolutionary Warby Michael Lee LanningFrom the first shots of the American Revolutionary War until the ultimatevictory at Yorktown, black men significantly contributed to securingindependence for the United States from Great Britain. On March 5,1770, Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, was at the center of whatbecame known as the Boston Massacre that fanned the flames ofrevolution. Once the rebellion began, Prince Estabrook, another AfricanAmerican, was one of the first to fall on Lexington Green inMassachusetts on April 19, 1775. Other black men fought to defendnearby Concord Bridge later in the least a dozen black men fought at the Battle of Bunker and BreedsHill the following June 17.
General George Washington, a Virginia slave owner, took command of the newly formed Continental ... 10/17/2016 African Americans in the Revolutionary War | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ... Primary Source: Calling out the militia after Lexington and Concord, 1775 Multimedia: Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and ...
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