| 词条 | Saul Matthews |
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Saul Matthews was an enslaved African American who spied for the Continental Army during American Revolutionary War. He spied on the British, obtaining valuable information for the Patriots. As a result of this, he was given his full freedom from slavery by the Virginia legislature in 1792: "In consideration of many very essential services rendered to this Commonwealth during the late war … full liberty and freedom … as if he was born free." SlaveryBorn in Virginia, Saul Mathews was a slave of Thomas Mathews.[1] American Revolutionary WarIn 1781 General Cornwallis and his troops captured Portsmouth, Virginia. Saul Matthews was under the command of Colonel Josiah Parker when several times Parker ordered him to go into British camps and spy on them. He always returned with much success and information, even though he was forced back into slavery for about 10 years.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} In 1792 he successfully petitioned the Virginia General Assembly for freedom again.[2] See also
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Black Heroes of the American Revolution|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0152085612|url=https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=ql0XwLPlnFwC&pg=PA57|author=Burke Davis|accessdate=3 September 2012|page=57|date=2 January 1992}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=A Question of Manhood|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253213433|pages=11, 180|url=https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=7QZoSoy_2DYC&pg=PA11|author=Darlene Clark Hine|volume=1|author2=Earnestine Jenkins |editor=Darlene Clark Hine|accessdate=3 September 2012|chapter=Black Men's History: Toward a Gendered Perspective|date=12 October 1999}} External links{{DEFAULTSORT:Matthews, Saul}}{{AfricanAmerican-stub}} 4 : African Americans in the American Revolution|People of Virginia in the American Revolution|American slaves|American spies during the American Revolution |
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