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Free Workshop for Virginia Teachers, George Mason’s Gunston Hall

Lorton, Virginia
February 3, 2024

Participants met at George Mason’s Gunston Hall to learn about The Critical Role of Spain during the American Revolution, America’s First Allies: The Oneida Indian Nation, Southern Heroines in the Revolution, and Destruction & Wanton Waste: The Impact of War in a Peaceful Valley & the Quaker Community. ARI lessons and primary source materials chronicling lesser-known testimonies from America’s War for Independence were presented by Virginia master teacher Anne Walker, George Mason University professor Dr. Larrie Ferreiro, and our talented in-house team. Funding was provided by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia.

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Partially printed D.S., Hartford, June 7th 1782: receipt of Pay-Table-Committee

1782

The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati

Payment receipt signed for Dick Freedom by Cuff Liberty. Dick Freedom and Cuff Liberty were African American participants in the Revolutionary War who adopted aspirational names during their service. They served in the all-African American Second Company of the Fourth Connecticut Regiment.

Black Patriots Memorial Preliminary Figure, Ed Dwight, ca. 1993, 1900x1300

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Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial preliminary figure

Ed Dwight

1992

The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati

Bronze sculpture of a preliminary figure for the proposed Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial in Washington, D.C., by Ed Dwight in Denver, Colorado, 1992. The subject holds a rifle and wears a tri-corner hat and uniform, with a bag on one hip and a powder horn behind the other.

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Elisabeth, Grace, and Rachel Martin, South Carolina

Felix Darley (artist) and Charles Regnier (engraver)

New York: Groupil & Co., 1853

The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection

Scene of Grace and Rachel Martin, dressed in their husband's clothing and armed with pistols, demanding that a courier and two British officers hand over the secret papers they were taking to the enemy. The engraving is based on an account from Elizabeth F. Ellet's 1848 publication, The Women of the American Revolution, Volume I. This print was marketed to both American and French audiences, reflecting interest on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Nancy Hart

Felix Darley (artist) and Charles Regnier (engraver)

New York: Groupil & Co., 1853

The Society of the Cincinnati, The Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection

The life and legend of Nancy Hart embodies the violent struggle between patriot and loyalist neighbors that characterized the American Revolution in the Georgia backcountry. This 19th century color lithograph depicts Hart's storied encounter with a party of loyalists. The engraving is based on Elizabeth F. Ellet's account of Hart in her 1848 history of women during the American Revolution. This print was marketed to both American and French audiences, reflecting interest on both sides of the Atlantic.