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The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution
author
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Kaplan, Sidney.; Kaplan, Emma Nogrady
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0870236636
print isbn13
:
9780870236631
ebook isbn13
:
9780585083773
language
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English
subject
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans--Exhibitions, African Americans--Portraits--Exhibitions, African Americans--History--To 1863--Exhibitions.
publication date
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1989
lcc
:
E269.N3K36 1989eb
ddc
:
973/.0496073
subject
:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans--Exhibitions, African Americans--Portraits--Exhibitions, African Americans--History--To 1863--Exhibitions.
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The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution
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The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution
Revised Edition
Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1989 by The University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
LC 88-22111
ISBN 0-87023-663-6 (pbk)
Designed by Barbara Werden
Set in Linotron Garamond No. 3 at Keystone Typesetting, Inc.
This book is published with the support of the William Monroe Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Frontispiece: This woodcut portrait of Phillis Wheatley appeared on the cover of a popular almanac eight years after the publication of her Poems in 1773.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaplan, Sidney, 1913 The black presence in the era of the American Revolution Rev. ed. / Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-87023-663-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. United StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775 1783Afro-AmericansExhibitions. 2. Afro AmericansPortraitsExhibitions. 3. Afro AmericansHistoryTo 1863Exhibitions. I. Kaplan, Emma Nogrady, 1911 . II. Title. E269.N3K36 1989 973'.0496073dc19 88-22111 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
vii
I: Homage to Liberty
3
II: Preludes to the Declaration
6
Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre
6
Aftermath of Attucks: Portraits in Petitions
11
The Shot Heard Round the World: Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Great Bridge
16
The Declaration of Independence
24
III: Bearers of Arms: Patriot and Tory
32
A Trio with the Generals: William Lee, James Armistead Lafayette, Agrippa Hull
35
A Muster of Brave Soldiers and Sailors
44
Three Black Units
64
In the Service of the King
70
IV: The Black Clergy
90
Founders of the African Baptist Church: David George, George Liele, Andrew Bryan
91
Founders of the African Methodist Church: Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, Peter Williams
96
Three Black Ministers: John Marrant, John Chavis, Lemuel Haynes
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