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Want to know more about the role of African-Americans in the Revolutionary War? The following list should be a good start for you. (Provided by our historical consultant Phil Williams)

  • The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution by Sidney Kaplan, Emma Nogrady Kaplan Amherst Press, 1989.
  • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William C. Nell, published by Robert F. Wallcut, 1855
  • Liberty: The American Revolution by Thomas Fleming published by Viking, 1997
  • William Diamond¼s Drum by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot published by Doubleday, 1959
  • The Black Phalanx by Joseph T. Wilson, pub. by Da Capo Press, N.Y. 1994. Originally published 1887.
  • The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles, pub. by W.W. Norton and Co. The Norton Library, N.Y. 1973
  • Racially Integrated Forces Fought at Bunker Hill, UPI, Chicago Defender, June 14, 1975.
  • The Negro Soldier: Missing Pages in Our History, ed. by William Loren Katz (pub. by R.F. Wallcut, Boston, 1861. Repint. Westport: Negro Universities Press, 1970)
  • The African American Journey 1998, World Book, Inc. (World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia)
  • The Spirit of åSeventy-Six The story of the American Revolution as told by participants Edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris, pub. by Harper & Row, N.Y. 1967
  • The Revolutionary War by Bart McDowell, 1967
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