The First American Revolution

Without Africans, there would be no United States of America. Crispus Attucks, who perished in the 'Boston Massacre', was the first to die for the country. Onesimus demonstrated the West African practice of using infected blood to fight contagion, saving Boston from a smallpox epidemic. The 'Santo Domingo Brigade', Haitian soldiers serving under France, saved the American Revolution from oblivion with victories in Savannah and the final victory in Yorktown.