The David Library of the American Revolution
Selected Readings on African Americans in the Revolution
5708
African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War (Washington,
D.C., 2001).
1302p
Aptheker, Herbert. The Negro in the American Revolution (New York, NY, 1940).
4759
Beach, Merrill E. From Valley Forge to freedom: a story of a Black patriot (Chester, CT,
1975).
1535
Berlin, Ira. Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution (Charlottesville,
VA, 1983).
4678
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
Black jacks: African American seamen in the age of sail (Cambridge, MA, 1997).
4849
Bradley, Patricia. Slavery, propaganda, and the American Revolution (Jackson, MS,
1998).
1193
Brown, William Wells. The Negro in the American rebellion, his heroism and his fidelity
(Miami, FL, 1969).
3p
Bullock, James A. Black patriots of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 (Princeton, NJ,
1969).
6650
Clifford, Mary Louis. From slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists after the American
Revolution (Jefferson, NC, 1999).
6024
Corbett, Theodore G. A clash of cultures on the warpath of nations : the colonial wars in
the Hudson-Champlain valley (Fleischmanns, NY,2002).
4421
Crow, Jeffrey. The Black experience in Revolutionary North Carolina (Raleigh, NC,
1996).
1969
Dobler, Lavinia G. Pioneers and patriots: the lives of six Negroes of the Revolutionary
era (Garden City, NY, 1969).
1176
Foner, Philip Sheldon. Blacks in the American Revolution (Westport, CT, 1976).
3071
Frey, Sylvia. Water from the rock: Black resistance in a revolutionary age (Princeton,
NJ, 1991).
477p
Greene, Robert Ewell. Black courage, 1775-1783: documentation of Black participation
in the American Revolution (Washington D.C., 1984).
5665
Gutman, Herbert George. The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 (New
York, NY, 1976).
3889
Hodges, Graham Russell. The Black loyalist directory : African Americans in exile after
the American Revolution (New York, NY, 1996).
6058
Hodges, Graham Russell. Root & branch : African Americans in New York and east
Jersey, 1613-1863 (Lincroft, NJ, 1990).
4452
Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and freedom in the rural North: African Americans in
Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 (Madison, WI, 1997).
3541
Kaplan, Sidney. The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution (Amherst,
MA, 1989).
6535
Knoblock, Glenn A. "Strong and brave fellows": New Hampshire's black soldiers and
sailors of the American Revolution, 1775-1784 (Jefferson, NC, 2003).
5783
Lanning, Michael Lee. Defenders of liberty: African Americans in the Revolutionary War
(New York, NY, 2000).
6545
Levesque, George A. Black Boston: African American life and culture in urban America,
1750-1860 (New York, NY, 1984).
770
Livermore, George. An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the
Republic, on Negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers (New York, NY, 1969).
1184p
Minority military service, Connecticut, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1989).
1193p
Minority military service, Maine, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1990).
1183p
Minority military service, Massachusetts, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1989).
1179p
Minority military service, New Hampshire, Vermont, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C.,
1991).
1181p
Minority military service, North Carolina, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1996).
1194p
Minority military service, Rhode Island, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1988).
1182p
Minority military service, South Carolina, Georgia, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C.,
1997).
1180p
Minority military service, Virginia, 1775-1783 (Washington, D.C., 1996).
2984
Mullin, Michael
Africa in America: slave acculturation and resistance in the American South and the
British Caribbean, 1736-1831 (Urbana, IL, 1991).
2587
Nash, Gary B. Forging freedom: the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 17201840 (Cambridge, MA, 1988).
6659
Nash, Gary B. The forgotten fifth: African Americans in the age of revolution
(Cambridge, MA, 2006).
235
Nell, William C. The colored patriots of the American Revolution (New York, NY,
1968).
680
Nell, William C. Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812 (New
York, 1976).
1272p
Newman, Debra P. List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department
collection of Revolutionary War records (Washington, D.C., 1974).
Per
Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography.
2084
Piersen, William Dillon. From Africa to America: African American history from the
Colonial era to the early Republic, 1526-1790 (New York, NY, 1996).
309p
Pingeon, Frances D. Blacks in the Revolutionary era (Trenton, NJ, 1975).
659p
Puckrein, Gary Alexander. The black regiment in the American Revolution (Providence,
RI, 1978).
5400
Pulis, John W. Moving on: Black loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic world (New York, NY,
1999).
6613
Pybus, Cassandra. Epic journeys of freedom: runaway slaves of the American Revolution
and their global quest for liberty (Boston, MA, 2006).
685
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution (Williamsburg, VA, 1961).
6448
Quintal, George. Patriots of color: "a peculiar beauty and merit" : African Americans
and native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill (Washington, D.C., 2002).
6020
Sammons, Mark. Black Portsmouth: three centuries of African-American heritage (New
York, NY, 2006).
6573
Schama, Simon. Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution (New
York, 2006)
5922
Schwarz, Philip J. Twice condemned: slaves and the criminal laws of Virginia, 17051865 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1988).
Film 1
Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution. Slavery
documents collection.
3831
Voelz, Peter Michael. Slave and soldier: the military impact of Blacks in the colonial
Americas (New York, NY, 1993).
2427
Walker, James St. G. The Black loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia
and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 (New York, NY, 1976).
1101p
Walling, Richard S. Men of color at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778: the role of
African Americans and native Americans at Monmouth: containing a brief history of
these men of color and a presentation of more than one hundred names and
identifications (Tennent, NJ,1993).
483p
White, David O. Connecticut's Black soldiers, 1775-1783 (Chester, CT, 1973).
3002
Wilson, Ellen Gibson. The loyal Blacks (New York, 1976).
6564
Wilson, Joseph T. The black phalanx: African American soldiers in the War of
Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War (New York, NY, 1994).
3675
Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the colonial era: from African origins through
the American Revolution (Arlington Heights, IL, 1990).