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Collection Reference Number GLC06132
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1855 
Title The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans
Date 1855
Author Nell, William C. (William Cooper) (1816-1874)  
Additional authors Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Document Type Book
Content Description Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Contains descriptions of African Americans' meritorious military service. Includes a printed fold-out leaf opposite page 132, which consists of George Washington's discharge for a soldier named Brister Baker. The first illustration depicts Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and a sailor who died 5 March 1770 in the Boston Massacre. A second section includes information on the state of African American Civil Rights at the time of publication. This work is a duplicate of GLC06176.
Subjects Revolutionary War  African American Troops  African American History  Military History  Continental Army  Woman Author  Women's History  Civil Rights  Slavery  President  Revolutionary War General  Boston Massacre  
People Nell, William C. (William Cooper) (1816-1874)  Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)  Attucks, Crispus (d. 1770)  Baker, Brister (fl. 1777-1783)  Wallcut, Robert Folger (1797-1884)  Washington, George (1732-1799)  
Place written Boston, Massachusetts
Theme The American Revolution; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Women in American History; The Presidency
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859