Historian Simon Schama recounts the story of thousands of African American slaves who, at the end of the American Revolution, fought for the British in exchange for their freedom. Using journals and autobiographical accounts, Rough Crossings dramatizes their epic and tragic journey from the slave plantations of Georgia, to the bone-chilling cold of ( Read more... )

Revolutionary War Role Would Be RecognizedWASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Connecticut native's decades-long fight for a monument to the thousands of black soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War took an important step forward recently when U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd and other lawmakers introduced legislation that would let it be on the National Mall ( Read more... )

S.1051 Title: A bill to authorize National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia at Constitution Gardens previously approved to honor free persons and slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and justice for all during the American Revolution ( Read more... )

The Roxbury Discussion Series continues with African American Troops in the Revolutionary War a presentation by historian Thomas Plant on March 15, 10am to 12pm at Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall. The event is free ( Read more... )

Listing Names of Black & Native American Soldiers ( Read more... )

While Leona W. Martin's forebears were fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War, the freed slave that genealogist David Lambert counts as an adopted ancestor was performing heroically for the patriots at Bunker Hill ( Read more... )

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When I hear the name Daughters of the American Revolution, I think of the incident in which Marian Anderson, a black contralto and one of the world's greatest opera singers, was told by the DAR she could not sing in Constitution Hall because it was off limits to black performers ( Read more... )

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BOSTON -- Thousands of black men fought for American independence during the Revolutionary War, yet their contributions rarely appear in modern history books ( Read more... )