For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy. Such was the case for the Carolina Corps, a military unit comprising ...

The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ... died or were killed during the American Revolution. And I hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others ...

Noted historian, educator and author, Dr. C. W. Miller, PhD., will address slavery during the American Revolution.

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution.

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS ...

U.S. concerns about the possible "contagion" of the revolution in Saint-Domingue to slaves in North America were outweighed by the political and economic advantages of working with Louverture. North ...

It wasn't that the revolution in Saint Domingue taught ... And the revolt in Haiti reminded American slaves, who were still enthusiastic about the promise of 1776, that not only could liberty ...