The American Revolution was a war in which Native Americans and African Americans each fought in great numbers. In this course, we examine the wartime and postwar experiences of both groups. We first explore the war in Native America through the life of one of its most pivotal figures, a Mohawk woman known as Molly Brant, an influential and effective Iroquois ally to Great Britain in the American Revolution and later a founder of Kingston, Ontario. We then explore the African American Revolution through the life of Harry, a Mount Vernon stable hand and Black Loyalist, whom the British evacuated to Nova Scotia and who later resettled with nearly 1200 freedmen in Sierra Leone, where poor conditions compelled Harry to join a rebellion against the British administrators.
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