Were the following Americans because they fought for American side in the
Revolution:
The Marquis de Lafayette
Baron von Steuben
Baron Johann de Kalb
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Jose Monino de Redondo
Francois Joseph Paul Comte de Grasse
Comte de Rochambeau
In a message dated 3/13/2009 3:10:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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I beg to differ, as some of my ancestors who were Mulatto, Free Negro etc.,
fought in the Revolutionary War. As far as I know those who fought in the
Revolutionary War were citizens. They received pensions, paid taxes, and were
awarded Bounty Land. That would be my definition of an American.
I wrote an article recently and someone commented and asked me why I
referred to them as Mulatto. I told him that I was writing about Colonial Virginia,
and used the language from that period.
Anita
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:31:18 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Monticello Recives NEH Grant
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I have also wondered why historians writing about slaves or free Negroes
> in the early American period now refer to them as "African-Amercans."
> They were not "Americans," at least in a legal or constitutional sense.
> In a historical and legal sense, they were "Negroes" or "blacks" or
> "mulattoes." There is obviously a cultural sensitivity to pejorative
> terms for different nationalities, but is that the reason? Even if it
> is, can the historian continue to use the terms that were current during
> the period about which she is writing? Is there now a rule that this
> issue can't be discussed? To which group was Holder referring, those who
> are willing to discuss it, or those who will not?
>
> Richard E. Dixon
>
> Editor, Jefferson Notes
>
> Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
>
>
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