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03443aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 CFEBB332471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 180817t20192019enkabch b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1911628542 020 $a 9781911628545 035 $a (OCoLC)1048939134 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d UAB $d RA8 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a E269 N3 R44 2019 100 1 $a Rees, John U. $e author. 245 10 $a 'They were good soldiers' : $b African-Americans serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783 / $c John U. Rees. 264 1 $a Warwick : $b Helion & Company Limited, $c 2019. 300 $a 203 pages, viii pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), map, portraits, facsimiles ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a From reason to revolution series - warfare 1721-1815 ; $v no. 34 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 'I do promise to every Negroe ... full security .. within these Lines' : black Americans in service to the crown -- 'Numbers of free Negroes are desirous of inlisting' : an overview of African Americans in the Continental Army -- Analysis : 'return of the Negroes in the army,' August 1778 -- Soldier narratives and regimental service -- Massachusetts : 'the person of this ... Negro centers a Brave & gallant Soldier' -- Connecticut : 'he ... entered the service upon condition of receiving his freedom ...' -- New Hampshire : 'I was in the battles of Harlem-heights & Monmouth' -- Rhode Island : 'very much crippled in one arm ... [by] a wound received ... [at] Monmouth' -- New York : 'the Enemy made a stand and threw up a b[r]east work' -- New Jersey : 'enlisted ... for nine months ... was in the Battles of Crosswick & [M]onmouth' -- Pennsylvania : 'wounded in the right thigh, at Brandywine ...' -- Georgia : 'he served as a drummer in this company' -- South Carolina : 'a Ball ... passed through his left side, killing the Drummer immediately behind' -- Maryland : 'he will never forget the roaring of Cannon ...' -- Delaware : 'discharged ... 1782, being a slave for life & claimed' -- Virginia : 'served for two years ... in the light infantry commanded by Colo Harry Lee' -- North Carolina : 'the men sent on Board of Prison Ships--myself among them ...' -- 'They had a great frollick ... with Fiddling & dancing' : small things forgotten -- 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' : post-war societal attitudes, the black experience, and slavery -- Afterword : 'they were good soldiers" -- Appendices. 'Being a coloured man he was taken as a waiter' : overview of soldiers as officers' servants ; 'While at the camp I had the small Pox' : African American women with the army ; 'Peters is an East-India Indian ...' : compendium of deserter notices for soldiers of color ; Analysis of the Chesterfield supplement's black soldiers. 610 10 $a United States. $b Continental Army $x African American troops. 650 0 $a African American soldiers $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Participation, African American. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Participation, African American. 611 27 $a American Revolution (1775-1783) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351668 830 0 $a From reason to revolution 1721-1815 (Series); $v no. 34. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806025147.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CFEBB332471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search