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1 posted on 10/31/2009 8:26:56 PM PDT by Coleus

Statue at Boston Common:

2 posted on 10/31/2009 8:38:48 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Faux News" to "Foe News"..."they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Ghandi)

3 posted on 10/31/2009 8:57:44 PM PDT by wastedyears (Clyde Shelton is my hero.)

4 posted on 10/31/2009 9:03:40 PM PDT by rfp1234

5 posted on 10/31/2009 9:07:22 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion, Euthanasia & FOCA - - don't Obama and the Democrats just kill ya!)

Good story of a great man. Minor detail, Agrippa Hull was not a slave. Agrippa Hull was born free in 1759 in Mass.
Hull, Agrippa (1759-1848) African-American Revolutionary War soldier, born in Northhampton, Massachusetts. Hull served as personal orderly to Gen. John Paterson and later to Gen. Tadeusz Kosciuszko. As such he performed a variety of personal and military duties, including serving as a surgeon's assistant, and witnessed some of the most important fighting of the Revolution. He was with Kosciuszko during battles from Saratoga (1777) through the campaign in the South, and on until the end of the war (1783). Hull's discharge was personally signed by George Washington and he received a veteran's pension from Congress. Hull settled in Stockbridge, Massachusetts."
http://www.answers.com/topic/agrippa-hull

Every other source I looked at also describe Hull as a Free Born Black man who voluntarily signed on to serve in the Continental Army with George Washington.

6 posted on 10/31/2009 11:58:34 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)

The person most responsible for the American victory at Saratoga was, oddly enough, Benedict Arnold.

The author somehow manages to leave this out.

7 posted on 11/01/2009 4:46:13 AM PST by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)

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