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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Vince G, CSN MFT on February 26, 2016, 02:55:55 PM
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First off, I don't believe in a month because you should be worshiping us every month of the year. However, I'd like to at least add "one person" who has been left out of the history books....
Can you guess why??? ;D
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James Armistead Lafayette
James Armistead Lafayette (December 10, 1760 – August 9, 1830) was an African American slave who served the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War as a double agent. He served under the Marquis de Lafayette, reporting on the activities first of Benedict Arnold – after he had gone over to the British – and then Lord Cornwallis during the run-up to the Battle of Yorktown. He also fed false information to them.
An African-American slave, Armistead was owned by William Armistead of Virginia. Most sources indicate that James Armistead was born in 1748 in New Kent County, Virginia, while other sources put his birth around 1760 in Elizabeth City, Virginia.
After getting the consent of his master, Armistead volunteered in 1781 to join the army under Lafayette, who utilized him as a spy. Posing as a runaway slave, he joined the camp of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, the turncoat who was leading some British forces in the area. Pretending to be a spy for the British, Armistead gained Arnold's confidence to the extent that Arnold used him to guide British troops through local roads. "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 antislavery Lafayette." [1]
After Arnold departed north in the spring of 1781, James went to the camp of Lord Charles Cornwallis and repeated his successful pose there. He moved frequently between British camps, where the officers would speak openly about their strategies in front of him. Armistead documented this information in written reports, which he then delivered to other American spies. In this way he relayed much information about the British plans for troop deployment and about their arms. The intelligence reports from his espionage were instrumental in helping to defeat the British during the Battle of Yorktown.
Lafayette's return
In 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States at the invitation of President James Monroe, and made a tour of all 24 states, in which he was met by huge crowds and everywhere feted as a hero. While in Virigina, where he visited Washington's grave and gave a speech to the House of Delegates, he abruptly had his carriage stop when he saw Armistead in the crowd, and rushed to embrace him. At around this time he also wrote a testimonial on Armistead's behalf.[2]
Although Virginia passed a manumission act in 1782 allowing for the freedom of any slave by his or her owner, James Armistead remained the property of William Armistead, because a 1783 law targeted specifically at freeing slaves whose owners had used them as substitutes for army service in exchange for their liberty did not apply to him because he was a spy, not a soldier. However, in 1786, with the support of William Armistead – then a member of the House of Delegates – and carrying a 1784 testimonial of his service from the Marquis de Lafayette,[3] James petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom. On January 9, 1787, the Assembly granted the petition. At that time he chose to add "Lafayette" to his name, to honor the general.[4]
Armistead continued to live in New Kent County with his new wife, one son and several other children. He became a rich farmer and at one point owned three slaves.[5][6] By 1818 he applied to the state legislature for financial aid. He was granted $60 for present relief and a $40 annual pension for his services in the Revolutionary War.
Armistead died on August 9, 1830.
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First off, I don't believe in a month because you should be worshiping us every month of the year. However, I'd like to at least add "one person" who has been left out of the history books....
Can you guess why??? ;D
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/James_Armistead_Lafayette.jpg)
James Armistead Lafayette
James Armistead Lafayette (December 10, 1760 – August 9, 1830) was an African American slave who served the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War as a double agent. He served under the Marquis de Lafayette, reporting on the activities first of Benedict Arnold – after he had gone over to the British – and then Lord Cornwallis during the run-up to the Battle of Yorktown. He also fed false information to them.
An African-American slave, Armistead was owned by William Armistead of Virginia. Most sources indicate that James Armistead was born in 1748 in New Kent County, Virginia, while other sources put his birth around 1760 in Elizabeth City, Virginia.
After getting the consent of his master, Armistead volunteered in 1781 to join the army under Lafayette, who utilized him as a spy. Posing as a runaway slave, he joined the camp of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, the turncoat who was leading some British forces in the area. Pretending to be a spy for the British, Armistead gained Arnold's confidence to the extent that Arnold used him to guide British troops through local roads. "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 antislavery Lafayette." [1]
After Arnold departed north in the spring of 1781, James went to the camp of Lord Charles Cornwallis and repeated his successful pose there. He moved frequently between British camps, where the officers would speak openly about their strategies in front of him. Armistead documented this information in written reports, which he then delivered to other American spies. In this way he relayed much information about the British plans for troop deployment and about their arms. The intelligence reports from his espionage were instrumental in helping to defeat the British during the Battle of Yorktown.
Lafayette's return
In 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States at the invitation of President James Monroe, and made a tour of all 24 states, in which he was met by huge crowds and everywhere feted as a hero. While in Virigina, where he visited Washington's grave and gave a speech to the House of Delegates, he abruptly had his carriage stop when he saw Armistead in the crowd, and rushed to embrace him. At around this time he also wrote a testimonial on Armistead's behalf.[2]
Although Virginia passed a manumission act in 1782 allowing for the freedom of any slave by his or her owner, James Armistead remained the property of William Armistead, because a 1783 law targeted specifically at freeing slaves whose owners had used them as substitutes for army service in exchange for their liberty did not apply to him because he was a spy, not a soldier. However, in 1786, with the support of William Armistead – then a member of the House of Delegates – and carrying a 1784 testimonial of his service from the Marquis de Lafayette,[3] James petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom. On January 9, 1787, the Assembly granted the petition. At that time he chose to add "Lafayette" to his name, to honor the general.[4]
Armistead continued to live in New Kent County with his new wife, one son and several other children. He became a rich farmer and at one point owned three slaves.[5][6] By 1818 he applied to the state legislature for financial aid. He was granted $60 for present relief and a $40 annual pension for his services in the Revolutionary War.
Armistead died on August 9, 1830.
You lot never learn.
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Glenn Beck told this guy's story the other day. The first double agent in American history??? Very interesting.
He didn't mention the dude eventually owning slaves though, lol.
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If Trump win the election and becomes president will you also pledge to leave the country as some of your brethren have?? Serious question
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I don't believe in a month because you should be worshiping us every month of the year.
If you were able to comprehend your true existence... you would kill yourself immediately. Filthy piece of shit.
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TL:/DR
OP:/YLLS
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Ho dumb of a fuck does a slave have to be to think he has a goddamned interest in who wins the Revolutionary War?
Black history? No.
Dumbfuck history? Yes!
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If Trump win the election and becomes president will you also pledge to leave the country as some of your brethren have?? Serious question
Do you honestly think that he has a chance....btw I'm not leaving because I hate boats ;D
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This is just too funny. People always talk about late Hebrews always are. And here we are 26 days into black history month with a thread on Black History Month, lol..
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If you were able to comprehend your true existence... you would kill yourself immediately. Filthy piece of shit.
Are you white or black?
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Ho dumb of a fuck does a slave have to be to think he has a goddamned interest in who wins the Revolutionary War?
Black history? No.
Dumbfuck history? Yes!
Pretty sure he isn't in Ibiza getting all the girls
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This is just too funny. People always talk about late Hebrews always are. And here we are 26 days into black history month with a thread on Black History Month, lol..
There's a thread.
I didn't read it or participate but guess it's GetBig's typical racist nonsense.
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Do you honestly think that he has a chance....btw I'm not leaving because I hate boats ;D
hes not my choice but mark my words he will win this election
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First black man on the moon
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There's a thread.
I didn't read it or participate but guess it's GetBig's typical racist nonsense.
My memory is not so shot that I don't remember the threads I started myself, lol...
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My memory is not so shot that I don't remember the threads I started myself, lol...
LOL!
One of the kids sends texts asking about running on CPT if I don't show up exactly on time.
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...and at one point owned three slaves.
What a lovely ending to this story ::)
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Leslie Hutchinson...
Noble Sissle...
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Fats Waller...
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Worshiping for what? For stupidity, crime rates, uglyness, no history, no contribution to humanity... i dont think there is something to worship you for.
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Fats Waller...
Am not.
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Worshiping for what? For stupidity, crime rates, uglyness, no history, no contribution to humanity... i dont think there is something to worship you for.
enjoy
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enjoy
Thats what your type does, enjoy everything whats beatiful to die because you are a cancer to moder society, where you go it dies.
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Thats what your type does, enjoy everything whats beatiful to die because you are a cancer to moder society, where you go it dies.
not a good post
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Never saw the movie, mr.turbo. At first I thought it was going to be like the "Catcher Freeman" episode of The Boondocks, LOL!
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Never saw the movie, mr.turbo. At first I thought it was going to be like the "Catcher Freeman" episode of The Boondocks, LOL!
I just saw it this week for the first time ;D
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I just saw it this week for the first time ;D
Dude seemed upset about the whipping, LOL!
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Dude seemed upset about the whipping, LOL!
Highly recommended as part of any black history month entertainment programming
many LOLs to be had therein