Research and resources on Connecticut’s patriots of color

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“Cato Freedom,” 10 Million Names (https://10millionnames.org/stories/cato-freedom: accessed 2 February 2025).

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 2 February 2025).

Kaitlyn Oberndorfer, “Enslavement and Service: The Paradox of the American Revolution,” Forgotten Voices of the Revolutionary War (https://forgottenvoicesrevwar.org/enslavement-and-service-the-paradox-of-the-american-revolution/: accessed 2 February 2025).

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 2 February 2025).

Michelle Tom, “Glimpses of Windsor’s Black Patriots,” 30 September 2022, Windsor Historical Society (https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/glimpses-of-windsors-black-patriots/: accessed 2 February 2025).

Nick Bellantoni, “Jeff Liberty: African-American Revolutionary War Veteran,” Forgotten Voices of the Revolutionary War, 14 February 2023 (https://forgottenvoicesrevwar.org/jeff-liberty-african-american-revolutionary-war-veteran/: accessed 2 February 2025).

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 2 February 2025).

“Prince Griswold Crosley Honored by the Sons of the American Revolution,” Witness Stones: Old Lyme, 16 May 2024 (https://www.witnessstonesoldlyme.org/post/prince-griswold-crosley-honored-by-the-sons-of-the-american-revolution: accessed 2 February 2025).

Todd Jones, “Black Soldiers in the Nation’s Wars,” Salmon Brook Historical Society (https://www.salmonbrookhistoricalsociety.com/blacksoldiersinthenationswars: accessed 2 February 2025).

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