Historical interpreter Joe Palumbo shares the powerful legacy of Caesar Robbins, an enslaved man who fought in the American ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

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 ...

Also broadening the Revolutionary War’s narrative are exhibits such ... of Black history around Greater Boston, mostly among Black people like him. But recently, he has received several ...

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 ...