A review by kaylana
Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Burke Davis

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

 I really enjoyed reading about black heroes of the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks and James Lafayette really stand out. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote almost a century after the Revolution that "We are to reflect upon the mas far more magnanimous...[inasmuch as they served] a nation which did not acknowledge them as citizens and equals, and in whose interests and prosperity they had less at stake. It was not for their own land they fought, not even for a land which had adopted them, but for a land which had enslaved them, and whose laws, even in freedom, oftener oppressed than protected. Bravery, under such circumstances, has a peculiar beauty and merit." Amen.