African Americans and the Revolutionary War: The History of Black Soldiers in the American Revolution

The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the “shot heard `round the world” to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington & Concord were borne out of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses. From 1764-1775, a...