For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
The Boston Globe6d
How Deborah Sampson posed as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War (and treated her own gunshot wound)
In the annals of Revolutionary War soldiers, Massachusetts was full of notable figures. But there were none quite like Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight with the Continental ...
The Virginian-Pilot7d
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
but he and many other free Black soldiers continued to fight beyond their initial terms. He served throughout the Revolutionary War and with the 15th Regiment of the Continental Army during the ...