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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 ...
This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...
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 ...
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 ...
F or enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy. Such was the case for the Carolina Corps, a military unit comprising ...
Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...
American Revolution Experience is part of a multiyear, nationwide tour that focuses on a variety of firsthand perspectives.
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 ...