Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who love history and who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world. Each episode features conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history.

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Ben Franklin's World

Episodes (487)

Today BFW Revisited: The American Revolution's African American Soldiers
Tue Feb 10th 433 Entangled Revolutions: Haiti, France, and the American Revolution
Tue Feb 3rd BFW Revisited: The Marquis de Lafayette

Ben Franklin's World

Feb 17, 2026
53¼ minutes
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More than 6,000 Black men—free and enslaved—served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Yet their stories remain some of the least told of the war. In this revisited episode, we rejoin Judith Van Buskirk, Professor Emerita of History at SUNY Cortland and author of Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution, to explore what motivated African American men to fight for the Revolutionary cause, how the Continental Army's policies toward Black enlistment shifted over the course of the war, and what life and service looked like in units like the Firs...

Ben Franklin's World

BFW Revisited: The American Revolution's African American Soldiers

Liz Covart

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