Black Patriot

A Black Patriot was an African American, who sided with the Revolutionary Americans, during the American Revolutionary War. Black Patriots were the opposite of the group of Black Loyalists, African Americans who took up the British offer of freedom and took refuge behind the Redcoat ranks. Black Patriots includes but is not limited to the 5000 African Americans or more who fought on the Continental Army during the war.

Crispus Attucks is considered to be the first Black Patriot for his death in The Boston Massacre. Attucks was commemorated by his fellow Bostonians as a Martyr for freedom. He was a man of mixed Native American and African ancestry and was a fugitive slave after his escape in 1750 from a farm in Framingham, Massachusetts. His death in the Boston Massacre is considered the first in The American Revolutionary War.

The Bucks of America were an all Black, Massachusetts Militia company organized, in 1775, in Boston, was the name given to one of two all-black units fighting for independence. There is little known of the campaign history, of the Bucks company, if they ever saw combat, but it appears, that they operated mainly around Boston. The Bucks of America may have acted primarily, as an auxiliary police or security service, in the city, during the war, and most likely did not see action, against British soldiers.

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