They Left with the British: Black Women in the Evacuation of Philadelphia, 1778

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on They Left with the British: Black Women in the Evacuation of Philadelphia, 1778 Black women were a small but important segment of the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania laboring classes. As slaves, as indentured servants, or as free persons of color, their options were extremely limited, but they could and did make decisions that affected their lives. The evacuation of Philadelphia by the British in 1778 during the Revolutionary War reveals the kinds of limited choices which...
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