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African Americans in the Revolutionary War. New York: Kensington Publishing, 2000 ISBN 0806527161. Lanning, Michael Lee. "African Americans and the American Revolution." in The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military (Routledge, 2016) pp. 45–54. MacLeod, Duncan J. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution (1974)
Black Patriots were African Americans who sided with the colonists who opposed British rule during the American Revolution.The term Black Patriots includes, but is not limited to, the 5,000 or more African Americans who served in the Continental Army and Patriot militias during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1851, William Cooper Nell, an African-American author, wrote the history Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812. It became a standard resource for African-American studies. A few years later, Nell wrote The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, which also became standard reading. It was commonly taught in schools ...
Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.
Category of African Americans involved in the events of the American Revolution. Many individuals are also in other subcategories of Category:People of the American Revolution, particularly those who served in the military.
He was the last living African American veteran of the Revolutionary War at the time and the oldest person buried in Elmwood Cemetery. [33] [34] His last known living descendant was Gertrude Robinson, his granddaughter, who died in Ohio in 1983. [35]
The American Revolutionary War, which saw the Thirteen Colonies become independent and transform into the United States, led to great social upheavals for African Americans; Black soldiers fought on both the British and the American sides, and after the conflict ended the Northern United States gradually abolished slavery.
James Armistead Lafayette (1748 [1] or 1760 [2] — 1830 [1] or 1832) [2] was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation.