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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American person to have a published poetry book. She was sold into slavery when she was either 7 or 8. She died during childbirth at the age of 31. The oldest daughter of the Wheatly family taught Phillis how to read and write.

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Salem Poor was a slave who ended up being able to purchase his freedom. He was also a famous soldier(and war hero). We don't know much about Salem's early life we do however know he married young. He fought for the patriots. He played an important role in the revolution because he was one of the few slaves to fight for the Patriots.

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How did the British entice African-Americans to join their side in the war? How successful were they with this policy?

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How did the British entice African-Americans to join their side in the war? How successful were they with this policy?

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The British offered the African-Americans freedom if they won the war

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Deborah Sampson was a freed indentured servant and a secret soldier. She enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment under the pseudonym Robert Shurtliff (that the name of her dead brother). Although she was injured on several occasions Deborah refused medical treatment. In 1782 after she enlisted she was injured in New York in the thigh and the head. She let the doctors treat her head wound; then snuck out of the tent and treated her thigh. She was able to remove one bullet with a penknife and a sewing needle. The other bullet was in too far; her leg never healed. Her identity was revealed in 1783 in Philadelphia when she contracted a fever. By the time she died, she had been collecting small pensions, for her service from Massachusetts and the federal government. A statue now stands in her honour in front of the public library in Sharon, Massachusetts, where she got married and lived out the rest of her life.

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Why were George Washington and other white Americans against allowing African-Americans and slaves in the ranks of the Continental Army at the start of the war? Why did he eventually reverse his policy?

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Why were George Washington and other white Americans against allowing African-Americans and slaves in the ranks of the Continental Army at the start of the war? Why did he eventually reverse his policy?

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Army.mil says “Washington had been a vocal opponent of recruiting black men, both free and especially slaves. He wasn't alone: Most southern slave owners found the idea of training and arming slaves and thereby abetting a possible slave rebellion far more terrifying than the British.” He later removed it because they needed every man to fight.

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Sybil Ludington was also known as the female Paul Revere, a 16-year-old girl who rode twice as far to alert of the British arrival. She forty miles through the night through the Putnam and Dutchess counties avoiding bandits and the British patrol.

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What roles did women play in the Revolutionary War?

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What roles did women play in the Revolutionary War?

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The women involved in the Revolutionary War took up many different roles, on the domestic side they cooked, cleaned, mended clothes, and provided medical help and on the other secret soldiers and spies. Historyofmassacustes.org states, “According to the book, The Revolutionary War, many nurses were originally camp followers: wives, daughters and mothers of male soldiers who followed the army looking for food and protection because they were no longer able to support themselves after the men left for war.” “According to the book, It’s Our Military Too! Women and the U.S. Military, female nurses often came up with new inventions to help treat and care for patients.” The women who were secret soldiers dressed as men and appeared as men by altering their physical attributes, cutting their hair, binding their breasts, and changing their names.

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