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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
click image for close-up John Murray, the fourth earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia at the start of the American Revolution, was simultaneously one of the most hated and most revered ...
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These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From SlaveryFor enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.
Blame the Patriots more than the cunning Dunmore. Norfolk native Andrew Lawler’s latest book is a lively gathering of ...
While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great ...
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Norfolk-born author Andrew Lawler sheds light on myths and history of Tidewater during the Revolutionary WarIt turns out, Lawler realized, that American rebels were responsible for burning Norfolk, enraged that Lord Dunmore had freed enslaved people to fight the rebels — their former owners. The ...
Many students of American history know that the Revolutionary War effectively ended at Yorktown, Virginia, when in 1781 the British forces under Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the American ...
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