Black Americans have a long and distinguished history of military service. They participated in every colonial war from 1690 through the French and Indian War (1754-1763) as soldiers, sailors, laborers, scouts, and spies.
Blacks generally served in integrated units and earned the same pay as whites. Even enslaved people served in the army and were paid although their enlistment compelled them to surrender some portion of this money to the people who held them enslaved. [Read more…] about Black Americans in the Revolutionary War
