Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary War

1st Rhode Island Regiment Background Image

Brown University Library, World Digital Library Collection, Library of Congress

Peter Salem Background Image

Historical/Getty Images

James Armistead Lafayette Background Image

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library.

Loyalists Background Image

Jersey Museum and Art Gallery. No copyright, in the public domain

America’s First Black Military Regiment Image

U.S. National Park Service

Hero at Bunker Hill Image

Peter Salem by Walter J. Williams, Jr.

Double Agent of Yorktown Image

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library.

Black Loyalists Image

U.S. National Park Service

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