A number of free black men from the North fought on the American side of the Revolutionary war. Several of them were sons of former slaves who had bought themselves (and in some cases, their ...

While the Patriots were ultimately ... whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered ...

Forensics labs need Americans with 18th-century ancestral ties to the states of Maryland, Delaware or North Carolina to come ...

Black Americans, who have defended our nation since the Revolutionary ... has never fought a war in which Black Americans did not serve proudly. But throughout most of American history, Black ...