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The colored patriots of the American Revolution
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- Creator
- William C. Nell
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- English
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- New York, NY : Arno Press, 1968
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- 396 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00426825, ocm00426825
- Reprint of the 1855 ed.
- Introduction / by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Introduction to pamphlet edition / by Wendell Phillips -- Massachusetts. Crispus Attucks ; Colored Americans on Bunker Hill ; Seymour Burr ; Jeremy Jonah ; A brave colored artillerist ; Governor Hancock's flag ; Big Dick ; Primus Hall ; James and Hosea Easton ; Job Lewis ; Jack Grove ; Bosson Wright ; Colonial reminiscences ; Mum Bett ; Phillis Wheatley ; Paul Cuffe ; Marshpee Indians ; Action of the Constitutional Convention in regard to colored citizens ; Facts indicating improvement -- New Hampshire. Jude Hall ; Legislative postponement of emancipation ; last slave in New Hampshire ; Senator Morrill's tribute to a colored citizen -- Vermont. seven hundred British soldiers escorted by a colored patriot ; Lemuel Haynes ; Judge Harrington's Anti-Fugitive-Slave-Law decision -- Rhode Island. Admission of Hon. Tristam Burges ; Defense of Red Bank ; Arrest of Major General Prescott, by Prince ; Colored regiment of Rhode Island ; Speech of Dr. Harris ; Loyalty during the Dorr Rebellion -- Connecticut. Hon. Calvin Goddard's testimony ; Captain Humphrey's colored company ; Fac simile of General Washington's certificate ; Hamet, General Washington's servant ; Poor Jack ; Ebenezer Hills ; Latham and Freeman ; Franchise of colored citizens ; David Ruggles ; Progress -- New York. Negro plot ; Debate in the State Convention of 1821 on the franchise of colored citizens ; New York colored soldiery ; Military convention in Syracuse 1854 ; Extract from a speech of H. H. Garnet ; Cyrus Clarke's victory at the ballot-box ; J.M. Whitfield ; Statistical and other facts -- New Jersey. Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Charlton ; Hagar ; Consistent Fourth of July celebration -- Pennsylvania. James Forten ; John B. Vashon ; Major Jeffrey ; John Johnson and John Davis ; Wm. Burleigh ; Conduct of colored Philadelphians during the pestilence ; Charles Black ; James Derham ; The jury-bench and ballot-box ; Gleanings --
- Delaware. Prince Whipple ; The colored soldier at the crossing of the Delaware ; Proscriptive law -- Maryland. Thomas Savoy ; Thomas Holen ; John Moore ; Benjamin Banneker ; Frances Ellen Watkins -- Virginia. The last of Braddock's men ; Patriotic slave girl ; Benjamin Morris ; Consistency of a Revolutionary hero ; Simon Lee ; Major Michell's slave ; Gen. Washington's desire to emancipate slaves ; Hon. A.P. Upshur's tribute to David Rich ; Tribute to Washington by the emancipated ; Aged slave of Washington ; Insurrection at Southampton ; Virginia Maroons in the Dismal Swamp -- North Carolina. David Walker ; Jonathan Overton ; Delph Williamson ; George M. Horton -- South Carolina. Hon. Chas. Pinckney's testimony ; Capt. Williamson ; Sale of a revolutionary soldier ; Slaves freed by the legislature ; Veteran of Fort Moultrie ; Jehu Jones ; Complexional barriers ; Revolt of 1738 ; The Black Saxons ; Denmark Veazie's insurrection in 1822 ; William G. Nell -- Georgia. Massacre at Blount's Fort ; Monsieur De Bordeaux ; Slave freed by the legislature -- Kentucky. Henry Boyd ; Lewis Hayden ; The heroic and generous Kentucky slave -- Ohio. Cleveland meeting ; Dr. Pennington ; Extracts from oration of William H. Day ; Bird's-eye view of Buckeye progress -- Louisiana. Proclamation of General Jackson ; Colored veterans ; Battle of New Orleans ; Jordan B. Noble, the drummer ; John Julius ; Testimony of Hon. R.C. Winthrop ; Cotton-bale barricade -- Florida. Toney Proctor -- Condition and prospects of colored Americans