num_pages: 96
description: Crispus Attucks is known as the escaped slave whose freedom ended when he died in the Boston Massacre, but there are many other lesser-known black men and women who made enormous contributions to U.S. independence. Readers will discover Edward Hector, the brave wagoner of Brandywine; artilleryman and slave Austin Dabney; William Lee, the aide and closest companion of George Washington throughout the war; and many others.
  
         Includes a bibliography, a foreword by Senator Edward W. Brooke, and an index.
  

language: English
title: Black Heroes of the American Revolution
publisher: Clarion Books