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In the midst of the MA250 celebrations exploring the history of the American Revolution and the establishment of the United ...
EXETER, N.H. — A new marker in Exeter honors Black Revolutionary War soldiers and their families who lived there after the war. The new marker is part of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire.
Lee is the author of “The Story or Mr. Thomas Carney,” a Black Revolutionary War soldier born in 1754 on the Eastern Shore. The monument will be the State House Trust contribution to the ...
EXETER — A new pocket park honoring Exeter’s Black Revolutionary War soldiers, their families, and the community they lived in for over 100 years will be the site of a Black Heritage Trail of ...
Black soldiers in the Revolution. Flora had taken up arms against other Black men at Great Bridge, who were part of a fighting force called the Ethiopian Regiment.
EXETER — The American Independence Museum (AIM) will host an Open House at Folsom Tavern at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 4, as part of an event to unveil a new ...
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight to enslavement even as they perpetuated it.
FAMILIES WHO LIVED THERE AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS BLACK HISTORY AND ACTUALLY HAS A LOT OF BLACK HISTORY. SOME OF THAT HISTORY CAN BE ...
EXETER — A new pocket park honoring Exeter’s Black Revolutionary War soldiers, their families, and the community they lived in for over 100 years will be the site of a Black Heritage Trail of ...