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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.
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.
Prince Estabrook. 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 ...
Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with the Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. [1] In particular, the term refers to men who escaped enslavement by Patriot masters and 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
George Middleton (c. 1735 – April 6, 1815) was an African-American Revolutionary War veteran, ... one of only two all-black Patriot units in the war.
Agrippa Hull. Agrippa Hull in the 1840s. Agrippa Hull (1759–1848) was an African-American patriot who served as an orderly to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military officer, engineer and nobleman, for five years during the American Revolutionary War. He served for a total of six years and two months. After the war, he received a veteran's ...