First Man To Die For The Flag We Now Hold High Was A Black Man...The Ground Where You Stand With A Flag Held In Your Hand Was First A Red Mans...We Pledge Allegions All Of Our Lives, To True Freedoms Colors Red Blue and White, But We All Must be Given The Liberty That We Defend, Aint it time to learn This World Was made For All Men! Crispus Attucks Of Wampanoag Indian and African Descent!!!! These brave gentleman was the first man to died in the Fight for freedom for what would become The United States of America!! By the 1760s, the American colonists began to wage a war of words and resistance against the British colonial government. The language of the dissenting colonists soon became the language of African Americans as well in their fight for personal freedom. Their poems, letters, and petitions used the rhetoric of the age to appeal for slaverys abolition in the rhetoric of the age. ..... few white colonists, publicly noted the paradox between the patriots demands for liberty and the widespread acceptance of slavery. James Otis called the slave trade the most shocking violation of the law of nature and posed a series of rhetorical questions which challenged the logic of enslaving blacks because of their physical characteristics. In The Watchmans Alarm John Allen questioned the values of his fellow colonists, chiding them for enslaving [their] fellow creatures. . . . What is a trifling three-penny duty on tea compared to inestimable blessings of liberty to one captive?..........During the escalating conflicts with the British army, some African Americans, like Crispus Attucks, displayed their devotion to the patriot cause. In 1770 Crispus Attucks became the first man to fall in the struggle with the British. His life was representative of the free blacks of his era -- a runaway, he worked for 20 years at various trades, including rope-making and sailing.....In April 1776, representatives of the thirteen rebellious colonies meeting in the Continental Congress voted to halt the slave trade. Their resolve to shut down British trade, not revolutionary idealism, prompted their action...... Three months later, in July, the Continental Congress grappled with slavery again. In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment of King George for promoting slavery in the New World. The other delegates eventually removed this language, but the final version still accused the king of stirring up domestic insurrections -- namely the acts of slave rebellion instigated by Lord Dunmores Proclamation (described in the following section). The Declaration of Independence immediately became the worlds foremost manifesto celebrating human rights and personal freedom, yet when he wrote it, Thomas Jefferson owned over 200 slaves. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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