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  2. Edith Cumbo - Wikipedia

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    Edith Cumbo (c. 1735 – ?) was a free mixed-race Black woman and entrepreneur who lived in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her life story is taught in the Advanced Placement American history curriculum to illustrate the challenges that free African Americans faced during the period of the American Revolution. Early life and family Edith Cumbo was born in around 1735 in Charles City County, Virginia ...

  3. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    Most African American units were relegated to support roles and did not see combat. Still, African Americans played a significant role in America's war effort. Four African American regiments were integrated into French units because the French suffered heavy losses and badly needed men after three years of a terrible war.

  4. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...

  5. Free Negro - Wikipedia

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    Free woman of color with quadroon daughter (also free); late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans.. In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved.

  6. Timeline of African-American firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African-American interracial romantic kiss in a mainstream comics magazine: "The Men Who Called Him Monster", by writer Don McGregor (See also: 1975) and artist Luis Garcia, in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #43 (Jan. 1972) (See also: 1975) [256]

  7. Category:18th-century African-American people - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American women The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people .

  8. Jupiter Hammon - Wikipedia

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    Hammon's Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, 1806. Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 – c. 1806) [1] was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American man in North America.

  9. Wentworth Cheswell - Wikipedia

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    The Jones house was an example of classic mid-eighteenth century elite housing. [4] The Jones House for years served (and continues to) as the Portsmouth Historical Society Museum. [5] Cheswell also built the Samuel Langdon House, which was moved to Sturbridge Village; it is a central exhibit demonstrating 18th-century construction technology. [5]