- A black man was the first dead American in the war - a hero. - Peter Salem, a black, was the MVP (hero) of Bunker Hill. - 1768 was when the first black to serve as a judge. - One of our earliest spies was a black Freeman. - Northern churches were fully integrated. - Blacks and whites fought side-by-side in Washington's army - fully integrated. - The original draft of the 1776 Declaration of Independence called for abolition of slavery. - Benjamin Baniker was the black man who laid-out Washington DC's streets. Frederick Douglas was the Martin Luther King of the early 1800s - the first civil rights leader. He said, "The Constitution is an anti-slavery document. It encouraged southern states to emancipate 3/5 slaves to full, liberated persons of equal status as whites, in order to increase their representation in Congress."
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