To call black Americans Afro-Americans is demeaning! History is more complicated and complex than slogans or labels!
"... Black Writers of the Founding Era includes figures familiar to those conversant with the American colonial and revolutionary periods, such as Phillis Wheatley, Richard Allen, James Armistead Lafayette, Prince Hall, and Benjamin Banneker, but many more black Americans, free and enslaved, grace these pages and deserve to become part of the histories now written about America. ...
the Declaration of Independence and lead to a war for independence that would enlist, by Basker’s count, 5,000 to 8,000 black Americans. ...
To be sure, as many as 20,000 blacks took the occasion of the Revolutionary War to join the British or otherwise leave America for other parts of the British Empire, while others petitioned for their freedom so that they could return to Africa. ..."
the Declaration of Independence and lead to a war for independence that would enlist, by Basker’s count, 5,000 to 8,000 black Americans. ...
To be sure, as many as 20,000 blacks took the occasion of the Revolutionary War to join the British or otherwise leave America for other parts of the British Empire, while others petitioned for their freedom so that they could return to Africa. ..."
Jean-Baptiste-Antione de Verger's depiction of American soldiers at the Siege of Yorktown shows a soldier of African descent from the Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Army
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