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White House biography of the Revolutionary War patriot and the first black preacher to minister to
a white church.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/lemuelhaynes.html
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Africans in America: Black Revolutionary Seamen
Overview of the role of African Americans, slave and free, in the navies of both sides during the
American Revolution. From the PBS series.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p51.html
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"Deeds of Desperate Valor": The First Rhode Island Regiment
Gretchen Adams, from the University of New Hampshire, writes about the courage of the
African-Americans in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment.
http://www.revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/adams2.html
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William Cooper Nell, 1816-1874. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution: With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons: To Which is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition and Prospects of Colored Americans.
Transcription of William Cooper Nell's 1855 historical text that details the black patriots.
Hypertext and SGML, illustrations, and biographical sketches available. Housed at the Documenting
the American South project, UNC-Chapel Hill.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nell/menu.html
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Georgia's Black Revolutionary Patriots
Essay by Carole Scott devoted to the black soldiers who fought in the British and Continental
armies, with sources.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cescott/dabney.html
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Famous Blacks in the American Revolution
Information on the role that blacks played in the war of independence as well as several brief
biographies on famous blacks of that period.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha/blacks.html
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The Revolution's Black Soldiers
A history of black soldiers in the American Revolution.
http://americanrevolution.org/blk.html
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Seacoast NH Black History
African American patriots of the American Revolution.
http://www.seacoastnh.com/blackhistory/patriots.html
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The Roles of African Americans in the American Revolution
An essay from the Institute for Learning Technologies.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/blacks/blacks4.html
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The Black Patriots Foundation
A foundation honoring black patriots of the American Revolution. Includes photos and information
about the Black Patriots Memorial, the commemorative coin, and a history of the role that black
patriots played in the American Revolution.
http://www.blackpatriots.org/
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