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"The ex-slave, who later renamed himself James Armistead Lafayette in the general's honor, served as a double agent against the British under the avowedly anti-slavery Lafayette." [ 6 ] After Arnold departed north in the spring of 1781, James remained in Virginia and continued his work at the camps of Lord Charles Cornwallis .
Seals portrays one such historic figure, James Armistead Lafayette, whose service to the Continental Army, while enslaved, helped ensure victory at the critical Battle of Yorktown during the ...
It is implied that Lafayette adopts Henri as his foster-son. Moses (D. Kevin Williams) was born in Africa, brought in chains to North America as a slave, and sold on the block in Charleston, South Carolina. Because of his ingenuity, Moses learned to read, forge metal, and buy his freedom, thus freeing himself from the slavery of the American ...
William Armistead (1754–1793), slave owner and namesake of former slave and spy James Armistead Lafayette William Armistead (1762–1842) , Revolutionary war veteran and Alabama pioneer William Martin Armistead (1873–1955), publicist for the N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency
Bringing Americans together as the Marquis de Lafayette did would be unlikely in 2024, but the country can still learn from his story.
At Yorktown, James Armistead, a slave who had joined Lafayette's service with his master's permission, crossed into Cornwallis' lines in the guise of an escaped slave, and was recruited by Cornwallis to return to American lines as a spy. Lafayette gave him a fabricated order that was destined for a large number of nonexistent replacements.
A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association about the day Lafayette residents rioted against abolitionists and African Americans.
The episode provoked a slavery debate in Congress, and may have influenced a provision in the Compromise of 1850 that ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia, although not slavery itself. The escape inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe in writing her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), in which people in slavery dreaded being "sold South", and ...