5 March 1770 Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave turned Jacktar, and four other colonists were killed during the so-called Boston Massacre, in which British soldiers fired on unarmed men and boys who were causing a disturbance. He was the first African American killed during the American Revolution.
1774 Massachusetts began enlisting blacks in its militia companies.
1774 General Thomas Gage rejected the petition of Boston blacks, who offered to fight for the British in exchange for their freedom.
1774 New York offered to emancipate any slaves who served in the militia for 3 years.
1775 The Massachusetts Committee of Safety directed that only free blacks could serve in the militia.
19 April 1775 Blacks took part in the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The first armed clash between England and her colonists in North America was sparked by the dispatch of 700 British soldiers from the Boston garrison. Sent to seize colonial arms and possibly arrest rebel leaders, the "redcoats" encountered armed resistance instead. Pomp Blackman and Prince Estabrook were two of the black Minutemen who took part in the event immortalized as the "shot heard ‘round the world." Estabrook was killed during the fighting.
May 1775 Black patriots helped Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys take Fort Ticonderoga, New York, by surprise.
15 June 1775 The Continental Congress chose George Washington to head the newly established Continental Army. Shortly after assuming command, Washington ordered his officers not to recruit black troops. He later rescinded this order to allow the enlistment of free blacks. Congress subsequently approved this decision in 1776.
17 June 1775 Several black soldiers (most notably Peter Salem and Salem Poor) helped defend Breed’s Hill in the Battle of Bunker Hill on Charlestown Heights overlooking Boston Harbor. Although tactically a British victory, this confrontation was psychologically significant for the colonists. The patriots met British regulars and successfully held on to their position until they ran out of ammunition.
July 1775 American General Horatio Gates ordered his officers not to recruit "any deserter from the Ministerial army, nor any stroller, negro, or vagabond, or persons suspected of being an enemy to the liberty of America, nor any under eighteen years of age."
26 September 1775 Edward Rutledge proposed that all blacks in the Continental Army be discharged. Voted down by northern delegates, the issue cropped up again in October 1775, because of white fears that the Army was becoming a refuge for runaway slaves. At that time, a committee agreed to exclude blacks (especially slaves) from the service. However, after northern officers and soldiers strongly protested the measure, Washington reversed this decision in December 1775 to permit free blacks to serve.
November 1775 The "Ethiopian Regiment" was formed in Virginia after about 800 blacks responded to the royal governor’s offer of freedom to all male slaves who joined the British forces.
28 November 1775 The Continental Congress formally established the Continental Navy, after authorizing the construction of two warships on 13 October to defend against the British fleet. The approved rules regulating the new military service allowed both free and enslaved blacks to enlist.
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