BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS

Ten to fifteen percent of the colonies' troops were of African descent; some say it was as high as twenty-five percentage! Black troops were fully integrated with the whites , except in Rhode Island, and they fought in every battle from Concord to Yorktown , despite being excluded from serving in the beginning by General George Washington! But too few white colonists willing to serve brought about a flood of black as substitutes for masters; especially after British guaranteed freedom to all slaves who reached their lines and who fought for them contra colonies. Thousands of blacks responded! https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war