Ms. Wills' article on the Yorktown commemoration has already been posted on the HNN website: http://hnn.us/articles/16846.html

D. Deal
History/SUNY Oswego

Anita Wills wrote:

> My understanding is that they are still buried there. Colonial Yorktown is Administrated by the National Park Services, who employ numerous historians. If we do not insist that all of those who participated, and lost their lives are commemorated, they will continue to sit there, draw a check, and do nothing. It is up to taxpayers, the ultimate employers of these people, to insist they do their job.
>
> Anita
>
> -- "J. Douglas Deal" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> All commemorators of the siege and surrender at Yorktown might also
> reflect on the fact that by far the largest contingent of African
> Americans there were the thousands of slaves or ex-slaves who had run off
> to the British to win their freedom. They were used by Cornwallis to dig
> earthworks and perform other labors behind British lines. At some point,
> they were turned out--many starving and sick with smallpox--into "no
> man's land" where they tried to evade capture and find food. For most
> of these we have no rosters, yet they too were in their own way fighting
> for freedom. Who will commemorate their sacrifices and suffering?
>
> Douglas Deal
> Professor of History and Chair of History Department
> State University of New York at Oswego
> Oswego, NY 13126
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