At the end of the war he was honorably discharged and emancipated. Brinch had been captured in west Africa at age sixteen and sold as a slave in Barbados and later Connecticut, where he joined an infantry regiment in 1777.
Boyrereau Brinch, an enslaved man in Connecticut, fought in the American army during the Revolution in order to earn his freedom.What did it mean to African Americans to fight in the wars of white men? What did they fight for? How did their military roles affect their self-image as men and (in some cases) as citizens? We don't have Hubbard Pryor's own words, but we do have the written testaments of other soldiers. 1 Eight decades earlier in the American Revolution, about 5,000 African Americans fought with the rebelling colonists and 1,000 fought with the British. Pryor was one of about 179,000 African Americans who joined the Union army during the Civil War (about 19,000 served in the Union navy). The photographs at right show Hubbard Pryor-a twenty-two-year-old fugitive slave in Tennessee-before and after his enlistment in the 44th U.S. Photographs of fugitive recruit in the Union army (Civil War), 1864 (PDF) A black soldier in the American army (Revolution), 1777-1783 (PDF)Ī black soldier in the British army (Revolution), 1770s-1780sĪ black soldier's letter to President Lincoln (Civil War), 1863ĭiary of a black Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War), 1864 (PDF)
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