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Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many
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Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
December 5th 1996
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published October 31st 1996)
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