Black Revolutionary Seamen
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Description: Overview of the role of African Americans, slave and free, in the navies of both sides.
Africans in America/Part 1/Black Revolutionary Sea Men Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary War -- partly out of desperation for seamen of any color, and partly because many blacks were already experienced sailors, having served in British and state navies, as well as on merchant vessels in the North and the South.
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