Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Black Patriots who served in the state militias. The Bucks of America were an all-Black, Massachusetts Militia company organized in 1775 in Boston. This was the name given to one of two all-black units fighting for independence. There is little known of the campaign history of the Bucks company, or if they ever saw combat.
African Americans. African Americans fought on both sides the American Revolution, the Patriot cause for independence as well as in the British army, in order to achieve their freedom from enslavement. [1] It is estimated that 20,000 African Americans joined the British cause, which promised freedom to enslaved people, as Black Loyalists.
Crispus Attucks. 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. [2][3][4] While he is widely remembered as the ...
Liberalism. Patriots, also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain 's control and governance during the colonial era, and supported and helped launch the American Revolution that ultimately established American independence.
Black Loyalist. Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. [1] In particular, the term referred to men enslaved by Patriots who served on the Loyalist side because of the Crown 's guarantee of freedom. Some 3,000 Black Loyalists were evacuated from New York to Nova Scotia; they ...
Prince Estabrook was an enslaved African-American man and Minutemen Private [1] who fought and was wounded at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the initial engagements of the American Revolutionary War. [2] An undated broadside from the time identified him as "a Negro Man", spelled his name Easterbrooks, and listed him among the wounded ...
Spouse. Mary Davis. Children. 13. Wentworth Cheswell[a] (11 April 1746 – 8 March 1817) was an American assessor, auditor, Justice of the Peace, teacher and Revolutionary War veteran in Newmarket, New Hampshire. Elected as town constable in 1768, he was elected to other positions, serving in local government every year but one until his death.
James Armistead Lafayette (born 1748 [1] or 1760 [2] – died 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. [3][4] As a double agent, he reported the activities of Benedict Arnold after he ...