African American Women
See: Enslaved Women in the Colonial North America and the U.S.
Black women, many of whom were slaves, served both the Americans and the British in the capacity of nurses, laundresses and cooks.
Read more about this topic: African Americans In The American Revolution
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“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
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