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What Continental Army commanders barred African Americans from enlisting in the military?
They thought that if they gave them guns and tought them how to fight they feared that they might revolt in the enslaved population.
Robert Selig reflects on African Americans in the Continental Army. Island, and Connecticut agreed to again ban all blacks, free or enslaved, from their militias.
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