African Americans Guilford Courthouse – Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 21, 2024
Agrippa HullContinental Army veteran
Black Military Service during the Revolutionary War
Sentiment against the institution of slavery reached a peak in the year leading up to the Revolutionary War. Such vocal criticisms of slavery would not be heard again in the United States until the abolitionists of the Antebellum Era. Thousands of Native Americans and Blacks paid close attention to the colonial crisis. African Americans, both free and enslaved, viewed the conflict with Great Britain as an opportunity to challenge the legal, social, or economic obstacles that bound their lives.
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