HULL &HALL: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

By: Francini Parra & Porsche Bell

Background

Kosciuszko once was surprised to discover Hull, dressed in yhe commanders uniform giving a party for his friends.

Agrippa Hull was born free in 1759.

At a age of 6 he was brought to Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

In 1777 he was enlisted in the Colonial army and served for the duration of the war.

He was a patriot.

Agrippa Hull

The Return & Wife

Hull returned to Stockbridge. He was a neighbor of Elizabeth Freeman

(the first enslaved African American freed under the new state constitution.

Judge Sedgewick was a young lawyer that help Hull to gain freedom of Jane Darby(slave).

They got married. After Jane death he remarried.

Judge Theodore Sedgewick

More Information.

In 1828 Charles Sedgwick wrote the Acting Secretary of State on Hulls behalf

Asking that his soldiers pension be mailed directly go his home.

Charles Sedgwick

Prince Hall’s Background Information

Life Info

Prince Hall was born in 1735. He was the slave of William Hall of

Boston He had a son with a slave named

Delia in 1756. At age 27 he joined the

Congregational Church and married an enslaved woman named Sarah Richie and after she died he married Flora Gibbs of Gloucester.

Prince Hall was a Loyalist

War and Personal Information and Fun Facts

In 1775, Hall and fourteen other free blacks joined the British army lodge of the Masons who were stationed in Boston.

Hall protested the lack of schools for black children and established one in his own home.

Prince hall died 1807 at age 72,and one year later his lodge honored him by changing its name to Prince Hall Grand Lodge.

Was Hall’s title as the leader of the African Lodge NO.1

Grand Master

The last public speech given by Prince Hall

"Patience, I say; for were we not possessed of a great measure of it, we could not bear up under the daily insults we meet with in the streets of Boston, much more on public days of recreation. How, at such times, are we shamefully abused, and that to such a degree, that we may truly be said to carry our lives in our hands, and the arrows of death are flying about our heads....tis not for want of courage in you, for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob, which we despise...“ – Prince Hall