The David Library of the American Revolution

Selected Readings on African Americans in the Revolution

5708

African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War (Washington, D.C., 2001).

1302p

Aptheker, Herbert. The Negro in the American Revolution (New York, NY, 1940).

4759

Beach, Merrill E. From Valley Forge to freedom: a story of a Black patriot (Chester, CT, 1975).

1535

Berlin, Ira. Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution (Charlottesville, VA, 1983).

4678

Bolster, W. Jeffrey

Black jacks: African American seamen in the age of sail (Cambridge, MA, 1997).

4849

Bradley, Patricia. Slavery, propaganda, and the American Revolution (Jackson, MS, 1998).

1193

Brown, William Wells. The Negro in the American rebellion, his heroism and his fidelity (Miami, FL, 1969).

3p

Bullock, James A. Black patriots of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 (Princeton, NJ, 1969).

6650

Clifford, Mary Louis. From slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists after the American Revolution (Jefferson, NC, 1999).

6024

Corbett, Theodore G. A clash of cultures on the warpath of nations : the colonial wars in the Hudson-Champlain valley (Fleischmanns, NY,2002).

4421

Crow, Jeffrey. The Black experience in Revolutionary North Carolina (Raleigh, NC, 1996).

1969

Dobler, Lavinia G. Pioneers and patriots: the lives of six Negroes of the Revolutionary era (Garden City, NY, 1969).

1176

Foner, Philip Sheldon. Blacks in the American Revolution (Westport, CT, 1976).

3071

Frey, Sylvia. Water from the rock: Black resistance in a revolutionary age (Princeton, NJ, 1991).

477p

Greene, Robert Ewell. Black courage, 1775-1783: documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution (Washington D.C., 1984).

5665

Gutman, Herbert George. The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 (New York, NY, 1976).

3889

Hodges, Graham Russell. The Black loyalist directory : African Americans in exile after the American Revolution (New York, NY, 1996).

6058

Hodges, Graham Russell. Root & branch : African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863 (Lincroft, NJ, 1990).

4452

Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and freedom in the rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 (Madison, WI, 1997).

3541

Kaplan, Sidney. The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution (Amherst, MA, 1989).

6535

Knoblock, Glenn A. "Strong and brave fellows": New Hampshire's black soldiers and sailors of the American Revolution, 1775-1784 (Jefferson, NC, 2003).

5783

Lanning, Michael Lee. Defenders of liberty: African Americans in the Revolutionary War (New York, NY, 2000).

6545

Levesque, George A. Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America, 1750-1860 (New York, NY, 1984).

770

Livermore, George. An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the Republic, on Negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers (New York, NY, 1969).

1184p

Minority military service, Connecticut, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1989).

1193p

Minority military service, Maine, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1990).

1183p

Minority military service, Massachusetts, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1989).

1179p

Minority military service, New Hampshire, Vermont, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1991).

1181p

Minority military service, North Carolina, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1996).

1194p

Minority military service, Rhode Island, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1988).

1182p

Minority military service, South Carolina, Georgia, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1997).

1180p

Minority military service, Virginia, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1996).

2984

Mullin, Michael

Africa in America: slave acculturation and resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831 (Urbana, IL, 1991).

2587

Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom: the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 1720-1840 (Cambridge, MA, 1988).

6659

Nash, Gary B. The forgotten fifth: African Americans in the age of revolution (Cambridge, MA, 2006).

235

Nell, William C. The colored patriots of the American Revolution (New York, NY, 1968).

680

Nell, William C. Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812 (New York, 1976).

1272p

Newman, Debra P. List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records (Washington, D.C., 1974).

Per

Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography.

2084

Piersen, William Dillon. From Africa to America: African American history from the Colonial era to the early Republic, 1526-1790 (New York, NY, 1996).

309p

Pingeon, Frances D. Blacks in the Revolutionary era (Trenton, NJ, 1975).

659p

Puckrein, Gary Alexander. The black regiment in the American Revolution (Providence, RI, 1978).

5400

Pulis, John W. Moving on: Black loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic world (New York, NY, 1999).

6613

Pybus, Cassandra. Epic journeys of freedom: runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (Boston, MA, 2006).

685

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution (Williamsburg, VA, 1961).

6448

Quintal, George. Patriots of color: "a peculiar beauty and merit" : African Americans and native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill (Washington, D.C., 2002).

6020

Sammons, Mark. Black Portsmouth: three centuries of African-American heritage (New York, NY, 2006).

6573

Schama, Simon. Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution (New York, 2006)

5922

Schwarz, Philip J. Twice condemned: slaves and the criminal laws of Virginia, 1705-1865 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1988).

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Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution. Slavery documents collection.

3831

Voelz, Peter Michael. Slave and soldier: the military impact of Blacks in the colonial Americas (New York, NY, 1993).

2427

Walker, James St. G. The Black loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 (New York, NY, 1976).

1101p

Walling, Richard S. Men of color at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778: the role of African Americans and native Americans at Monmouth: containing a brief history of these men of color and a presentation of more than one hundred names and identifications (Tennent, NJ,1993).

483p

White, David O. Connecticut's Black soldiers, 1775-1783 (Chester, CT, 1973).

3002

Wilson, Ellen Gibson. The loyal Blacks (New York, 1976).

6564

Wilson, Joseph T. The black phalanx: African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War (New York, NY, 1994).

3675

Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the colonial era: from African origins through the American Revolution (Arlington Heights, IL, 1990).