Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle playing cards and the Norman Rockwell Museum

and the Norman Rockwell Museum

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Pub Date:  June 28

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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle playing cards and the Norman Rockwell MuseumUncover the lives of thirteen African Americans who fought during the Revolutionary War. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and American armies; preaching, speaking out, and writing about