Black Patriots included women who served in the American Revolution

Black Patriots included women who served in the American Revolution. They joined the army and always battled for recognition and the opportunity to carry out valuable tasks and receive the same rations as males regardless of their skin tone.

Among the many anonymous women who have served, we know Sarah, a Mulatto slave who, along with her six-year-old son, bravely joined the 1st Maryland Regiment in 1778. Another black woman, Hannah Till, was enslaved in the military family of General George Washington. Then at the end of 1778, she demanded her freedom and decided to join the army from 1776 to 1780.

One of the most famous women in the black patriot community was Phillis Wheatley. Born circa 1753 in The Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was taken to America by slave traders in 1761 and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts. As a poet, Phillis Wheatley supported black patriots throughout the American Revolution, but she was never pro-slavery. Wheatley has sent several letters on the freedom to the clergy and other people. At the height of her creative career, she penned a well-received poem honoring George Washington's selection as commander of the Continental Army because Wheatley thought that the greatest obstacle stopping the colonists from exhibiting genuine courage was slavery.

To conclude, Black Patriots included women who served in the American Revolution such as:

• Sarah, a Mulatto slave
• Hannah Till
• Phillis Wheatley