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Virginian Ned Streater, African American Minute Man
byNed Streater (also spelled Streator) was a twenty-year-old man when he first served early in the American Revolution as a member of a Virginia…
African Americans in the American Revolution
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The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington’s Slave Roundup
byOn October 19, 1781, Gen. George Washington attained his apex as a soldier. Straddling a spirited charger at the head of a formidable Franco-American…
“She had gone to the Army . . . to her Husband”: Judith Lines’s Unremarked Life
byWhen the War of the Revolution began in April 1775, Connecticut resident Judith Jeffords née Philips was nineteen years old, had been married for two…
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The Discovery of an Important Letter from a Soldier of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment
byLast spring, the Varnum Memorial Armory Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, announced its discovery of a handwritten letter from a formerly enslaved man…
This Week on Dispatches: John Rees on Remembrances of Black Revolutionary War Veterans
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews writer, researcher, historian, and JAR contributor John Rees on his series of articles about nineteenth-century remembrances…
Such As Are Absolutely Free: Benjamin Thompson’s Black Dragoons
byAt the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, there is an exhibit in the core gallery examining the choices, opportunities and constraints of…
Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Edward Hector, Bombardier and Wagoner
byNat Turner launched a bloody uprising among enslaved Virginians in Southampton County in 1831 the same year that William Lloyd Garrison of Boston began…
Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Hannah Till, George Washington’s Cook
byThe 1820 Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state, established Maine as a free state, and banned slavery in the territory west…