Episode 143
E140: The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington‘s Slave Roundup
Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution · Dispatches
November 7, 202129m 28s
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Show Notes
This week our guest is JAR contributor Dr. Gregory J.W. Urwin. Only a few hours after his victory at Yorktown, General George Washington ordered the Continental army to pursue enslaved men who aided the British in exchange for their freedom. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.