Gary Nash, “Introduction,” in The Negro in the AmericanRevolution, ed. Benjamin Quarles (Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina, 2012), xx.
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Black people were restricted from participating based on racial ideology. Therefore, it is believed that the conceptof a Black Founder should not be conceptualized in the same way as a White Founder.
Black people are often left out of important times history. And even more often left in the shadow of a white man who takes the credit. As history has shown time and time again black history is only taught when it comes from black suffering.
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They are defined by their efforts to (1) build social institutions for Black people in the UnitedStates; (2) emphasize universal emancipation; and (3) incite dialogue over the meaning of Black identity.2 Their purposewas to help establish a separate and safe country for Black people, both free and enslaved, within the racist structures ofthe United States.
The goal of Black Founder isn't talked about the same way it's talked about compared to White Founders. It's important to know that Black Founders' vision for America didn't align with those of White Founders. They wanted a segregated country where Black people could be free and safe from the alienation of white supremacists.
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Black American revolutionary soldiers did fight in the war, not out of love for a country that oppressed them, but out oflove for life, survival, and the preservation of their race.
This can be compared to the African American soldiers that fought for the Confederates (or maybe even fought at all) during the Civil War.
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In these three cases, the Black soldierswere essential for the war efforts; the need to win the warbecame stronger than racial/racist ideology.4
It has become normal for Black soldiers to not be recognized for their efforts in America's independence. When they were the ones were out on the field fighting for the notion of a nation that didn't value them as comrades.
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Derrick A. Bell Jr., “Brown v. Board of Education and theInterest-Convergence Dilemma,” Harvard Law Review 93,no. 3 (1980): 518-33.
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