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American Patriots
By: Gail Lumet Buckley , Joanna LacyeBook Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Random House Publishing Group
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American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and culminating with Desert Storm.
The best histories are about more than facts and events — they capture the spirit that drives men to better their lives and to demand of themselves the highest form of sacrifice. That spirit permeates Gail Buckley’s dramatic, deeply moving, and inspiring book. You’ll meet the men who fought in the decisive engagements of the Revolution, the legendary Buffalo soldiers, and the heroic black regiments of the Civil War. You’ll meet some of America’s greatest patriots — men who fought in the First and Second World Wars when their country denied them access to equipment and training, segregated the ranks, and did all it could to keep them off the battlefield. You’ll meet the heroes of Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. And you’ll meet two families, the Lews and the Pierces, who have served in every American engagement since the Revolution.
FDR used to say that Americanism was a matter of the mind and heart, not of race and ancestry. With photographs throughout and dozens of original interviews with veterans, American Patriots is a tribute to the black American men and women who fought and gave their lives in the service of that ideal.
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| Release Date: 07-03-2001 | |
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| Publisher: Random House Publishing Group |
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American Patriots
Chapter One
THE REVOLUTION
Slavery and Independence
I served in the Revolution, in General Washington's army. . . . I have stood in
battle, where balls, like hail, were flying all around me. The man standing next
to me was shot by my side—his blood spouted upon my clothes, which I wore for
weeks. My nearest blood, except that which runs in my veins, was shed for
liberty. My only brother was shot dead instantly in the Revolution. Liberty is
dear to my heart—I cannot endure the thought, that my countrymen should be
slaves.
—"Dr. Harris," a black Revolutionary veteran, in an address to the
Congregational and Presbyterian Anti-Slavery Society of Francestown, New
Hampshire, 1842.
Crispus Attucks: The First Martyr of the Revolution
"BLOODY MASSACRE," screamed the March 12, 1770, issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, Paul Revere's four-color illustrated broadsheet, depicting redcoats with muskets firing into a crowd of well-dressed Boston citizens. Four victims lie bloodied on the ground. One, closest to the soldiers, the only one dressed in rough seaman clothes instead of a waistcoat and three-cornered hat, lies in the center foreground in a pool of blood. "The unhappy Sufferers," Revere wrote, were "Sam'l Gray, Sam'l Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks Killed." (Revere omitted Patrick Carr, an Irish leather worker, who was also killed.) Gray was a rope maker, Maverick an apprentice joiner, Caldwell a ship's mate; the seaman Attucks, "killed on the Spot, two Balls entering his Breast," was described as "born in F
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