FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Learn About America’s Forgotten Patriots
There were anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 soldiers of African and Native American descent who served under General George Washington in the Continental Forces.
Fighting for a country under which they had no legal rights was not an easy road to travel. The stunning new picture book Patriots of African Descent in the Revolutionary War: Part 1 is fiction, as told by a family historian to his great-grandson about their family’s service as African-Americans during the Revolutionary War.
Readers ages 8 and older will be fascinated as they read about a nearly forgotten chapter in American history.
PATRIOTS OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: PART 1(ISBN: 978-1-60976-517-0) is available on March 25, 2011 for $30 and can be ordered through the publisher’s website:
About the Author: Marion T. Lane is a retired public school educator. Originally from Philadelphia, she now resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her next book is titled More Than One Ancestry. “I am one of the few African-American members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Society of Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge.”
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