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

Excerpt from 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

The colored race have been generally considered by their enemies, and sometimes even by their friends, as deficient in energy and cour age. Their virtues have been supposed to be principally negatise ones. This little collection of interesting incidents, made by a col ored man, will redeem the character of the race from this miscon ception, and Show how much injustice there may often be in a gen erally admitted idea.

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