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SCOUT· 46%50m·2026-02-17·HistoryBFW Revisited: The American Revolution's African American Soldiers
Ben Franklin's World
More than 6,000 Black men—free and enslaved—served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Yet their stories remain some of the least told of the war. In this revisited episode, we rejoin Judith Van Buskirk, Professor Emerita of History at SUNY Cortland and author of Standing in Their Own Light:…
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