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---------------FORWARDED MESSAGE FROM H-WOMEN------------- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:28:00 -0600 From: "Cordery, Stacy A." <STACY@monm.edu> Subject: QU: Deborah Sampson Gannett MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Greetings. Prepping my courses this morning, I was quite surprised by the information in my African-American history textbook (Darlene Clark Hine, et al, _African-American Odyssey_) that Deborah Sampson Gannett, the famous 'first American female soldier,' was black. I had never heard this before, and a quick glance through a couple other textbooks and revolutionary-era monographs confirmed that I probably had not simply forgotten, misread, or ignored what is common knowledge to everyone else. Darlene Clark Hine et al's _Black Women in America_ also asserts that Deborah Sampson Gannett was black, that this is "generally accepted," and that some "question the authenticity of this claim" (Vol 1, p 478). I would like to discuss this issue with my classes, and I'm hoping some fellow listers can enlighten me about the nature and quality of the evidence supporting the claim of her African/African-American parentage. Thanks, Kirsten E. Wood Assistant Professor Florida International University woodk@fiu.edu (305) 919-5964 (fax)
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