Imagine you’re from one of the great West African empires: the Yoruba, whose intricate political systems rivaled those of ...

The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army ...

Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary ... navy during the war, recalled several black men among the "courageous ...

ISBN: 0786448156. Although the proportion is likely exaggerated, it has traditionally been believed that about a third of the people of the Thirteen Colonies during the Revolutionary War were “Tories” ...

In recognition of Black History Month, Rhode Island lawmakers acknowledged the Black soldiers who fought in the American ...

In honor of Black History Month, Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives this week recognized the contribution of ...