List Of Free African Americans In The American Revolution

Author : Paul Heinegg
Publisher : Clearfield
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 080635934X

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List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution by Paul Heinegg Pdf

Over 420 African Americans who were born free during the colonial period served in the American Revolution from Virginia. Another 400 who descended from free-born colonial families served from North Carolina, 40 from South Carolina, 60 from Maryland, and 17 from Delaware. Over 75 free African Americans were in colonial militias and the French and Indian Wars in Virginia and North and South Carolina. (Lest the reader be confused by the plural Wars, all the dynastic wars from the late 1600s through 1763 are collectively referred to as the French and Indians Wars.) Although some slaves fought to gain their freedom as substitutes for their masters, they were relatively few in number; those who were not serving under their own free will are not included in this list. While the information one each of the free black veterans varies, in most cases the author has provided the individual's name, state and county, unit served in, military theatre, some family information, often a physical description, pension applied for or received, sometimes other information, and the source.

Author : Graham Russell Hodges
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315503394

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Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers by Graham Russell Hodges Pdf

Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history, and black history.

Author : Douglas R. Egerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199782253

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Death Or Liberty by Douglas R. Egerton Pdf

Here, the author offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800.

Author : Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806541693

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African Americans In The Revolutionary War by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lee Lanning Pdf

“A thorough, long-overdue study of Black Americans’ contributions during the War of Independence. . . . An important piece of American and African American history.” —Kirkus Reviews In this enlightening and informative work, military historian Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (ret.) reveals the little-known, critical, and heroic role African Americans played in the American Revolution, serving in integrated units—a situation that would not exist again until the Korean War—more than 150 years later . . . At first, neither George Washington nor the Continental Congress approved of enlisting African Americans in the new army. Nevertheless, Black men—both slave and free—filled the ranks and served in all of the early battles. Black sailors also saw action in every major naval battle of the Revolution, including members of John Paul Jones’s crew aboard the Bonhomme Richard. At least thirteen Black Americans served in the newly formed U.S. Marine Corps during the war. Bravery among African Americans was commonplace, as recognized by their commanders and state governments, and their bravery is recorded here in the stories of citizen Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre; militiaman Price Esterbrook at Lexington Green; soldier Salem Poor at Bunker Hill; and marine John Martin aboard the brig Reprisal. As interest in colonial history enjoys renewed popularity due to works like Hamilton, and the issues of prejudice and discrimination remain at the forefront of our times, African Americans in the Revolutionary War offers an invaluable perspective on a crucial topic that touches the lives of Americans of every color and background.

Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226293073

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Black Patriots and Loyalists by Alan Gilbert Pdf

In this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality - not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many - has been central to the American story from its inception."--Pub. desc.

Author : United States Capitol Historical Society
Publisher : Urbana : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University of Illinois Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000016237988

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Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution by United States Capitol Historical Society Pdf

Author : Eric Grundset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077674912

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Forgotten Patriots by Eric Grundset Pdf

By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges,Alan Edward Brown
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823298822

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The Book of Negroes by Graham Russell Gao Hodges,Alan Edward Brown Pdf

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book of Negroes is a laconic, ledger-style enumeration of 3,000 self-emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the British evacuation of Loyalists from New York City in the summer and fall of 1783 for Nova Scotia, England, Germany, and other parts of the world. Created under orders from Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America, to placate an angry George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (USA), who regarded the Black Loyalists as fugitive slaves, The Book of Negroes is, as Alan Gilbert has observed, a “roll of honor.”

Author : Sylvia R. Frey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691006260

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Water from the Rock by Sylvia R. Frey Pdf

The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. Sylvia Frey contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle--two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. She reveals the dialectical relationships between slave resistance and Britain's Southern Strategy and between slave resistance and the white independence movement among Southerners, and shows how how these relationships transformed religion, law, and the economy during the postwar years.

Author : Judith L. Van Buskirk
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806158907

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Standing in Their Own Light by Judith L. Van Buskirk Pdf

The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has remained largely untold, and the significance of their service largely unappreciated. Standing in Their Own Light restores these African American patriots to their rightful place in the historical struggle for independence and the end of racial oppression. Revolutionary era African Americans began their lives in a world that hardly questioned slavery; they finished their days in a world that increasingly contested the existence of the institution. Judith L. Van Buskirk traces this shift to the wartime experiences of African Americans. Mining firsthand sources that include black veterans’ pension files, Van Buskirk examines how the struggle for independence moved from the battlefield to the courthouse—and how personal conflicts contributed to the larger struggle against slavery and legal inequality. Black veterans claimed an American identity based on their willing sacrifice on behalf of American independence. And abolitionists, citing the contributions of black soldiers, adopted the tactics and rhetoric of revolution, personal autonomy, and freedom. Van Buskirk deftly places her findings in the changing context of the time. She notes the varied conditions of slavery before the war, the different degrees of racial integration across the Continental Army, and the war’s divergent effects on both northern and southern states. Her efforts retrieve black patriots’ experiences from historical obscurity and reveal their importance in the fight for equal rights—even though it would take another war to end slavery in the United States.

Author : Jessica Millward
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820348797

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Finding Charity’s Folk by Jessica Millward Pdf

Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.

Author : Cassandra Pybus
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807055182

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Epic Journeys of Freedom by Cassandra Pybus Pdf

Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration of success be comprehended and the unspeakable misery of failure be appreciated.--Ira Berlin, from the Foreword During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the astounding story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears, these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives. This alternative narrative of freedom fought for and won is uniquely compelling; historian Cassandra Pybus's groundbreaking research has uncovered individual stories of runaways who left America to forge difficult new lives in far-flung corners of the British Empire. Harry, for example, one of George Washington's slaves, escaped from Mount Vernon in 1776, was evacuated to Nova Scotia in 1783, and eventually relocated to Sierra Leone in West Africa with his wife and three children. Ralph Henry, who ran away from the Virginia firebrand Patrick Henry in 1776, took a similar path to precarious freedom in Sierra Leone, while others, such as John Moseley and John Randall, were evacuated with the British forces to England. Stranded in England without skills or patronage during a period of high unemployment, they were among thousands of newly freed poor blacks who struggled just to survive. While some were relocated to Sierra Leone, others, like Moseley and Randall, found themselves transported to the distant penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. Epic Journeys of Freedom, written in the best tradition of history from the bottom up, is a fascinating insight into the meaning of liberty; it will change forever the way we think about the American Revolution.

Author : Burke Davis
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0152085610

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Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Burke Davis Pdf

The black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence are profiled in this fascinating history which features prints and portraits from the period.

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001992176

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Blacks in the American Revolution by Philip Sheldon Foner Pdf

Author : William Cooper Nell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : 9780557535286

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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William Cooper Nell Pdf