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Black Virginians and the American Revolution

In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. In a recent Twitter

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:

Don’t Cry Don’t shed a tear The time I shared with you will always be And when I’m gone,

Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear