Historical notes on the employment of Negroes in the American Army of the Revolution

Moore, librarian of the New York Historical Society, discusses the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War -- the wrangling over whether to allow black troops to be armed and to fight, especially in the southern states -- and the formation of black units from both northern and southern colonies.

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