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Hidden Histories of the American Revolution: African Americans

A virtual book display featuring our current holdings for exploring the founding of our nation

Recommended Non-Fiction

cover - peters war
cover - black patriots
cover - death
cover - hemingses
cover - standing
cover - revolutionary war
cover - frederick douglass
cover - epic journeys
cover - water
cover - cause
cover - liberty
cover - choosing
cover - rough
cover - same liberty
cover - thomas jeremiah
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Primary Sources Databases

Adam Matthew Digital Collections

Suggested Search Terms

Black Loyalists

Haitian Soldiers/Battle of Savannah

Battle of Great Bridge

Royal Ethiopian Regiment

Black Patriots 

First Rhode Island Regiment

Bunker Hill

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation

Historical Figures

James Forten

Prince Estabrook

Titus Cornelius

Peter Salem

Salem Poor John Chavis

John Chavis

James Hemings

Colonel Joseph Louis Cook

Wentworth Cheswell

Jack Sisson

Ona “Oney” Judge

Jocko Graves

William Lee

Jacob Francis

Charles Lewis

Hannah Archer Till

Cyrus Tiffany

Cato Howe

André Rigaud

Jean-Baptiste Belley-Mars

Boston King

Thomas Peters

Dinah Whipple

David George

Belinda Royall

Colonel Tye

Stephen Blucke

Agrippa Hull

Prince Whipple

Prince Mortimer

Paul Cuffe Sr.

John Provey

Crispus Attucks

Soldiers at War

Verger, Jean Baptiste Antoine De, Artist. Soldiers in Uniform. [Williamsburg, Virginia: publisher not identified, to 1784] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669876/>.

Primary Source Books

cover - autobiography
cover - nationalism
cover - troops
cover - protection
cover - zion
cover - anthology
cover - presence
cover - slavery
cover - writing
cover - wheatley