YORKTOWN, Va. — Colonial National Historical Park will host a special living history event featuring reenactors from the 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment on Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April ...

The First Black Regiment, a group of Black and indigenous soldiers that fought for Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War, ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

More than 130 free Black men and formerly enslaved ... offer was made by a state government during the Revolutionary War. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment fought in the Battle of Rhode Island in ...

For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread ... Washington to approve plans for Rhode Island to raise a regiment of free blacks and slaves.

YORKTOWN — Colonial National Historical Park will host a special living history event featuring reenactors from the 1st Rhode ...