Copyright © 1989 by
The University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
LC 88-22111
ISBN 0-87023-662-8 (cloth); 663-6 (pbk)
Designed by Barbana Werden
Set in Linotron Garamond No. 3 at
Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

This book is published with the support of the
William Monroe Trotter Institute,
University of Massachusetts
at Boston.

Frontispiece: This woodcut portrait of Phillis
Wheatley appeared on the cover of a popular al-
manac eight years after the publication of her
Poems in 1773.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaplan, Sidney, 1913-

The black presence in the era of the American
Revolution -- Rev. ed. / Sidney Kaplan and
Emma Nogrady Kaplan.

p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index
ISBN 0-87023-662-8 (alk. paper).
ISBN 0-87023-663-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-
1783 -- Afro-Americans -- Exhibitions. 2. Afro-
Americans -- Portraits -- Exhibitions. 3. Afro-
Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Exhibitions.
I. Kaplan, Emma Nogrady, 1911 --. II. Title.
E269.N3K36 1989
973'.0496073 -- dc19 88-22111
CIP

British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are
available.

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