A Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the Revolutionary War do not go unnoticed.

As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, the contributions of Black patriots are at risk ...

But freedom would not come for all Black people until nearly a century later, with the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865. When the Revolutionary War began, enslaved people throughout the ...

In the first few years after the Revolutionary War, “there was a bubble of excitement … this opportunity for things to change,” for Black people in America, Bakari said. Black Patriots were ...

The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

He was born enslaved in 1745 in nearby Chelmsford, Massachusetts. And when the Revolutionary War broke out a few decades later, he became one of the area’s Black soldiers fighting for the American ...

Rees, who has written on the overlooked participation of women and Black people in the Revolutionary War, says that young people tend to be more receptive to that research. “We need to reach out ...

A new marker in Exeter honors Black Revolutionary War soldiers and their families ... Sign up for our Newsletters "A lot of people don't understand that New Hampshire has Black history, and ...

The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army ...