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Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution
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- UPDATED: 5.30.2025
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publication:
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2307/2715325
date:
July 1942
pages:
pp. 247-287
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peoples:
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CMOS:
Jackson, L. P. “Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History 27, no. 3 (1942): 247–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/2715325.
MLA:
Jackson, L. P. “Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 27, no. 3, 1942, pp. 247–87. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2715325. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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