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Quarles, Benjamin Arthur

1904-1996 · Contribution: 1938-1969

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Documented Black Americans as active participants rather than passive bystanders in the American Revolution and Civil War through landmark works including The Negro in the American Revolution (1961) and The Negro in the Civil War (1953), and became the first Black historian published in a major mainstream historical journal

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Quarles brought rigorous documentary evidence to African Americans' roles in the nation's founding wars, breaking into mainstream historical journals that had questioned whether Black scholars could write objective history.

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