The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons: To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans:
Electronic Edition.
Nell, William Cooper Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
supported the electronic publication of this title Text scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills and Sarah Reuning Images scanned by Fiona Mills and Sarah Reuning
Text encoded by Carlene Hempel and Natalia Smith First edition, 1999
ca. 800K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999. This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Call number E 269 N3 N4 (Winston-Salem State University)
The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South. All footnotes are moved to the end of paragraphs in which the reference occurs. Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references. All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as respectively. All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ‘ and ‘ respectively.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998
LC Subject Headings:
African Americans.
African Americans — Biography.
Slaves — United States — Biography.
African American soldiers — History — 18th century.
African American soldiers — Biography.
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Participation, African Americans.
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — African American troops.
African Americans — Civil rights — History — 18th century.
African Americans — Civil rights — History — 19th century.
Attucks, Crispus, d. 1770.
1999-10-12,
Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther
revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.
1999-05-30,
Natalia Smith, project manager,
finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.
1999-05-28,
Carlene Hempel
finished TEI/SGML encoding
1999-05-14,
Fiona Mills and Sarah Reuning
finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.
Crispus Attucks, the First Martyr of the American Revolution, King (now State) Street, Boston, March 5th, 1770. Page 16. To read more go to website above.
