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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 490389, member: 57463"] Just a quip.  When you say that Crispus Attucks and hundreds of others would fight for rights that their descendants would not enjoy, that is not quite correct.  Colonial law was not clear on the status of freed slaves.  In Roman and Greek times, there were different laws.  The men of the revolution (the WHITE men of the Revolution) were schooled in classic literature, so they knew the ambiguities.  In some times and places in teh ancient world, the MOTHER's status counted: slave mother = slave child.  In others it was the father's legal station.  In the early colonies before slavery became an institution, one generation could not pass slavery to the next.  Thus, the children of slaves were born free.  Also, there were owners who manumitted slaves they could not afford to support.  So, at the time of the revolution, there were many free Negroes.  It was not until the 1830s that "Black Laws" began to take rights away from free Blacks. But, too, that was the time of the Masonic Know-Nothings and the anti-Masonic counter push.  (I think Franklin Pierce and John Kennedy were the only US Presidents not Masons.)  SO, that was a wierd time for America, the second generation after the Revolution, like childhood's "terrible twos." That all aside, how about Augustus Saint-Gaudens's model, <a href="http://www.sgnhs.org/Augustus%20SGaudens%20CD-HTML/Models/Hettie.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sgnhs.org/Augustus%20SGaudens%20CD-HTML/Models/Hettie.htm" rel="nofollow">Hettie Anderson</a>, of the $20 coin?[/QUOTE]

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