Research and resources on Connecticut’s patriots of color

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“Jack Congo,” E Pluribus Unum (https://honoringourpatriots.dar.org/patriot-profiles/jack-congo/: accessed 10 March 2023).

Jamie H. Eves, ““Faithfully to Serve”: Jesse & Job Leason, African American Soldiers in the Revolutionary War,” Windham Textile and History Museum (https://millmuseum.org/job-jesse-leason/: accessed 10 March 2023).

Mary Harrell-Sesniak, “Hammet Achmet: Washington’s Waiter & Revolutionary War Patriot,” 18 February 2014, GenealogyBank (https://blog.genealogybank.com/hammet-achmet-washingtons-slave-revolutionary-war-patriot.html: accessed 10 March 2023).

Michelle Tom, “Glimpses of Windsor’s Black Patriots,” 30 September 2022, Windsor Historical Society (https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/glimpses-of-windsors-black-patriots/: accessed 10 March 2023).

Pauline C. Merrick, “The Real Sam Huntington: Black Governor, American Patriot,” 12 February 2022, The Atlantic Black Box Project (https://atlanticblackbox.com/2022/02/12/the-real-sam-huntington/: accessed 10 March 2023).

Todd Jones, “Black Soldiers in the Nation’s Wars,” Salmon Brook Historical Society (https://www.salmonbrookhistoricalsociety.com/blacksoldiersinthenationswars: accessed 10 March 2023).

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