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Massacre, and who is the first known casualty of the Revolutionary War.
“A lot of people think that in 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation was passed that all black people (in this country) were slaves,” he said, “and that simply was not true. In 1863 Virginia had more free black people than any other state in the Union.” Twenty Negroes won the Metal of Honor in the Civil War. In World War I, 403,000 Negro soldiers fought for the United States. Preston Jackson, brother of Blues singer John Jackson, was the
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