He wasn't alone: Most southern slave owners (and many northern slave owners), found the idea of training and arming slaves and thereby abetting a possible slave rebellion far more terrifying than the British. There simply aren't enough willing and able men to left to fight - willing and able white men, that is.Īt the start of the war, Washington had been a vocal opponent of recruiting black men, both free and especially slaves. States aren't meeting their militia quotas. They're dying and they're deserting and Washington has no way to replace them. They're suffering from exposure, typhus, dysentery and pneumonia. But now, many of the Soldiers are without shoes and blankets. Just one year earlier, they had led lighting-fast, surprise attacks against the British at Trenton and Princeton, N.J. George Washington, the Continental Army is waiting out the winter at Valley Forge, Penn. No one would have used the term African-American, and as Revolutionary-era names for black Americans would be considered offensive today, Soldiers has settled on black as a compromise.)įORT MEADE, Md. Most people thought of themselves as Virginians or New Yorkers or citizens of any of the other 11 colonies. America itself was only beginning to emerge as an identity during the Revolution.
(Editor's note: This story uses the term black as opposed to African-American.
His heroism at the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 earned numerous commendations by officers who recommended that the Massachusetts legislature reward him. Salem Poor, a former slave, was one of thousands of black Soldiers who served in the Revolution. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – He served as a double agent, and provided the Co. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption –įacsimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's original certificate commending James Armistead Lafayette's service on behalf of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, dated Nov. In this battle, the Americans had 400 dead and wounded men the British lost more than 1,000.
William Howe ordered fire on American forces three times and drove them northward across Bunker Hill.
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