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Mercy Otis Warren |
-Author , member of a family with strong pro-independence attitudes. - Wrote anti-British pro independence pamphlets and plays. - Anonymous member of the Committees of Correspondence . Wrote famous book about the Revolution. |
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Crispus Attucks |
-American merchant seaman, whater and dock worker. -Part Native American and part African. |
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James Armistead |
-Slave who served as a spy for the Americans. -Instrumental in the Revolution in Yorktown. -Was granted his freedom and pension by Virginia after the war. |
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Samuel Adams |
-Political activist. -Leader of pro-independence movement. -Probably a member of the Sons of Liberty. -Signer of the deceleration of indepence. |
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Wentworth Cheswen |
-First AFrican American elected to public office in the colonies. -teacher merchants and american revolution veteran. -signed document pledging loyalty to the patriots. -warned colonists about invading british. -fought at saratoga. |
