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• Forced To Serve

  

  The system of slavery was so deeply ingrained in colonial American culture that when white officers joined the Continental Army they brought along a valet. This was a delicate way of saying that they were bringing an enslaved man to war, for no pay, to take care of them and sometimes even put them in…

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  April 4, 2024

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  american-history, George Washington, Henry Beekman Livingston, history, Jack, Revolutionary War, Richard Montgomery, Slavery, William Lee