Image Title:
A Member of Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment

Note:
“John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, formed what he termed “Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment” in the fall of 1775 from the several hundred slaves who escaped their servitude to join him, as he fled Williamsburg to organize a small army of loyalists and British soldiers on the coast near Norfolk.” Read More

Note:
Original title of this artwork is "The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781"

Image Source:
Blackpast.org

Subject:
War - Revolutionary War - American Revolution - British

Date:
1783

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-MILAR-20

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