As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during the American Revolution. And I hereby further declare all ...
Black Americans, who have defended our nation since the Revolutionary War, have built a legacy of ... “For more than 200 years, African Americans have participated in every conflict in United ...
As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American wilderness to form their own separate communities -- a New World adaptation of an African form of resistance. These maroons (or ...