America 250 Brown Bag Lunch with Eric Chandler
Thu, Feb 26
|The Mather Homestead
Eric Chandler returns to the Mather Homestead for a lively lifetime lecture: Slaves, Freemen & Haitians in the American Revolution - Between a Rock and a Hard Place. BYO lunch.
Time & Location
Feb 26, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
The Mather Homestead, 19 Stephen Mather Rd, Darien, CT 06820, USA
About the event
Slaves, Freemen & Haitians in the American Revolution:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Among those largely written out of the historic narrative of the American Revolution were the people of color who fought for both sides, Rebels and Redcoats, and often for the same reason – the opportunity for emancipation and freedom from chattel slavery.
Free Blacks also fought, as did White colonists, to protect their families, their homes and their livelihoods. There are estimates that at times these soldiers of color would constitute as much as 25% of General Washington’s Continental forces.