Double Agent: James Armistead and the American Revolution

Stuff You Missed in History Class

• Episode: Double Agent: James Armistead and the American Revolution
• Website: Stuff You Missed in History Class
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• Duration: 00:27:06
• Published: 2013-01-07 19:26

James Armistead was a slave in Virginia, but got his master's approval to enlist when the Revolutionary War came. Armistead worked as a spy, and his story is one of many free and enslaved African-Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War.