'They were good soldiers' : African-Americans serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783 / John U. Rees.
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| Language: | English |
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Warwick :
Helion & Company Limited,
2019.
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| Series: | From reason to revolution 1721-1815 (Series) ;
no. 34. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 'I do promise to every Negroe ... full security .. within these Lines' : black Americans in service to the crown
- 'Numbers of free Negroes are desirous of inlisting' : an overview of African Americans in the Continental Army
- Analysis : 'return of the Negroes in the army,' August 1778
- Soldier narratives and regimental service
- Massachusetts : 'the person of this ... Negro centers a Brave & gallant Soldier'
- Connecticut : 'he ... entered the service upon condition of receiving his freedom ...'
- New Hampshire : 'I was in the battles of Harlem-heights & Monmouth'
- Rhode Island : 'very much crippled in one arm ... [by] a wound received ... [at] Monmouth'
- New York : 'the Enemy made a stand and threw up a b[r]east work'
- New Jersey : 'enlisted ... for nine months ... was in the Battles of Crosswick & [M]onmouth'
- Pennsylvania : 'wounded in the right thigh, at Brandywine ...'
- Georgia : 'he served as a drummer in this company'
- South Carolina : 'a Ball ... passed through his left side, killing the Drummer immediately behind'
- Maryland : 'he will never forget the roaring of Cannon ...'
- Delaware : 'discharged ... 1782, being a slave for life & claimed'
- Virginia : 'served for two years ... in the light infantry commanded by Colo Harry Lee'
- North Carolina : 'the men sent on Board of Prison Ships--myself among them ...'
- 'They had a great frollick ... with Fiddling & dancing' : small things forgotten
- 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' : post-war societal attitudes, the black experience, and slavery
- Afterword : 'they were good soldiers"
- Appendices. 'Being a coloured man he was taken as a waiter' : overview of soldiers as officers' servants ; 'While at the camp I had the small Pox' : African American women with the army ; 'Peters is an East-India Indian ...' : compendium of deserter notices for soldiers of color ; Analysis of the Chesterfield supplement's black soldiers.