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In 1775, hundreds of enslaved men in Virginia fled their plantations and joined… |
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They had no uniforms when they arrived. No ranks. No provisions. Most had no sh… |
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That someone was Lord Dunmore, the King’s governor. In November 1775, these m… |
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While their officers were white, the soldiers were Black men who had chosen to … |
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Not a slogan. A sentence. A fact. And then they marched. At Kemp’s Landing, t… |
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But it would not last. In December came Great Bridge—the real test. The road … |
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What remained of them fled to Dunmore’s ships in the Chesapeake. But there wa… |
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But in the course of a single year, they had done something lasting. For one ye… |
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And in doing so, they made plain a truth that neither side wanted to confront: … |
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Further Reading Braisted, Todd W. “‘Such as are absolutely Free’: Benjami… |
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Crow, Jeffrey J. The Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina. 1977.Dav… |
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More Reading Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1… |
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More Reading Horne, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance an… |
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More Reading Lawler, Andrew. A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Alli… |
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More Reading Rees, John U. “They Were Good Soldiers”: African–Americans S… |
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@DeglasscoTerrific thread. Thank you! All new information to me.This is the Nat… |
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@Deglassco Good to see you posting again. Congratulations on finishing your PhD! |
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@Deglassco Thank you for sharing this. This was unknown to me. |
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@Deglassco They've needed you while you were away! |
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@Deglassco Thank you for sharing this. Something I never knew. Very brave men. |
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@Deglassco I feel incredibly cheated by #linmanualmiranda and #hamilton |
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@Deglassco I made it only about 1/3 of the way through watching the musical Ham… |
