GLC06132: The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, 1855: Page #14
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COLORED PATRIOTS
OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER I.
MASSACHUSETTS
CRISPUS ATTUCKS- COLORED AMERICANS ON BUNKER HILL- SEYMOUR BURR- JEREMY JONAH- A BRAVE COLORED ARTILLERIST- GOVERNOR HANCOCK'S FLAG- BIG DICK- PRIMUS HALL- JAMES AND HOSEA EASTON- JOB LEWIS- QUACK MATRICK- JACK GROVE- BOSSON WRIGHT- PETITIONS OF COLORED MEN IN OLD COLONY TIMES- LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON SLAVERY- MUM BETT- GOV. HANCOOK AGAINST KIDNAPPING- PAUL CUFFEE- ETC.ETC.
ON the 5th of March, 1851, the following petition was presented to the Massachusetts Legislature, asking an appropriation of $1,500, for the erection of a monument to