The Helios Biblios Hour : The Founding BLACK Fathers of The Republic of AMERICA

Salem Poor earned his place in history. during "the Battle of Charleston"-known today as the Battle of Bunker Hill. In this battle, African Americans suffered more than 1,000 casualties.The protomartyr of the Revolutionary war was Crispus Attucks, a Negro, who was the leader in the Boston massacre on that memorable 5th of March, 1770. Attucks led the citizens in the charge,Patrick Carr, an Irishman, were mortally wounded. Attucks and Caldwell were buried from Faneuil Hall, afterwards called the "Cradle of Liberty.ten African Americans. Prince Esterbrooks was described as "the first to get into the fight."Jordan B. Noble was born around 1800, in Georgia. Later he moved to Louisiana and, at the age of 13, was serving with the Seventh Regiment of General Andrew Jackson's force during the War of 1812 .Prince Whipple did enter the service of America as a soldier during the Revolution and is often identified in a number of early paintings of the War, including that of General Washington after crossing the Delaware. In fact, many identify Prince Whipple as the man on the oar in the front of the boat in the famous crossing of the Delaware picture painted in 1851.Barzillai Lew (1743-1822), soldier, musician, veteran of the Revolution, notably Bunker Hill.James Lafayette (1760-1830), America's first black double agent.

Black Soldiers of the Revolutionary War from Plymouth County :a list of soldiers identified as "Negro," "Black," or "Mulatto," compiled from recruiting documents in the collection of the Pilgrim Society, by Jeremy D. Bangs, Visiting Curator of Manuscripts, Pilgrim Hall Museum. ( c The Pilgrim Society, 1996)African American Senators. To date, ten African Americans have served in the United States Senate. In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became .