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January 17, 1781 · Military Service & Historical Memory

Fifteen Patriots, Recovered by Name

African American men stood among the American force at the Battle of Cowpens. Pension records and later research restore at least fifteen of them to a victory from which Black participation was long obscured.

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Then

Black men—free and enslaved—served in a Revolution whose language of liberty did not protect them equally.

Now

Service records and pension testimony allow historians to recover people omitted from traditional battle narratives.

Next

Public history must state what is documented, identify uncertainty, and keep searching for lives hidden by incomplete archives.

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