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Black Virginians and the American Revolution

In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War

In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Even though the Civil

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. From enlistment to the