. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. rvice of nearly all the colonies.* Their pres-ence created objection and led to a council of war, held October,1775, composed of three major generals and six brigadiers,presided over by General George Washington, in which anyfurther Negro enlistments were unanimously condemned. Tendays later this action was approved by a conference participatedin by Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, Washington, andthe deputy governors of Connecticut and Rhode Island. TheBritish took adva
. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. rvice of nearly all the colonies.* Their pres-ence created objection and led to a council of war, held October,1775, composed of three major generals and six brigadiers,presided over by General George Washington, in which anyfurther Negro enlistments were unanimously condemned. Tendays later this action was approved by a conference participatedin by Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, Washington, andthe deputy governors of Connecticut and Rhode Island. TheBritish took advantage of this policy of the Revolutionists, andLord Dunmore, in a proclamation dated November 7, 1775,offered freedom and equal pay to all slaves who would jointheir array. Before the year closed, in fact on December 30,1775, Washington issued orders authorizing the enlistment offree Negroes as soldiers, and as such they continued until theclose of the war. The connection of the Negro soldier in the Continental Armywas not without incident. Some achieved honorable mention 1 Arnolds History State of R. I, p. 428. 50.
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