There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

For black people, what mattered most was freedom ... An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during the American Revolution. And I hereby further declare all indented ...

Beyond the Carolina Corps, Black soldiers served in such Revolutionary War units as Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment and the 29th Regiment of Foot. By the end of the revolution in September ...

The new historical marker unveiled Saturday in front of the Wayne Bryant Community Center in Lawnside memorializes more than a few of the forgotten Black figures of the American Revolution who ...

FILE - Virginia Gov-elect, Terry McAuliffe, seated center, listens as historical interpreter, Michael Wells, center, ...

The January Uprising was preceded by what Franciszek Ziejka termed a ‘mystical revolution’ of patriotic church services and special occasions ... Konstanty Gaszyński’s poem Czarna Sukienka (A Black ...

He, and he alone, is ushering in a new American revolution. One which may not be clear to us now, but months, years, and even decades from now, once honest “historians” not in the tank for the ...

Andrew Lawler’s interesting and important book “A Perfect Frenzy” should do much to close that gap. “A Perfect Frenzy: A ...

Rooted in the region’s history as the birthplace of the American Revolution and the resilient ... 1996 – are inscribed in a circle with a black border. “We are proud of our history as ...

“This was a plate that was cast for a group of Black soldiers during the American Civil War who were carrying the revolution forward during that event and trying to make our union more perfect ...