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Did Virginia’s African Americans
serve in the war?
Saul Matthews was a slave from Norfolk County who served the patriot cause in the double capacity of a soldier in the American army and as a spy for the American commanders in the British army during the Revolutionary War. During the time when many slaves of Norfolk and Princess Anne counties followed the British in response to Dunmore's proclamation of freedom to all who joined his army, Matthews worked as a spy, procuring valuable information tor American commanders. On one occasion in 1781 during the British campaign in the Portsmouth area. Matthews risked his life and went into
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