Nell, William Cooper. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution.

An expansion of his 1851 pamphlet, its complete title is: The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution with Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons to Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition and Prospects of Colored Americans. The book includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The first book by an African-American historian published in the U.S., it provides a state-by-state account of the until-then undocumented accomplishments of African-Americans and includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe.