Welcome to Walburters. A lot of you have seen the American Heritage Series with David Barton.

Well, and the sequel has now come out,

building on the American Heritage Series has been released.

You can actually order it at our website right now

at wallbuilders.com.

Here we go to Building on the American Heritage Series with David Barton.

David, our topic today is Black History in America.

We now do February as Black History Month, but it seems like we often only look at the last 40 or 50 years of black history.

What were some of the great black Americans earlier in our history?

Well you're right, so much of black history today focuses from the time of Martin Luther King

coming forward and that's important guys, really important stuff. But we used to know a whole lot more about our

history. We knew of Black Patriots way back in the beginning. Matter of fact, here's a

really special book. This is one that came out in 1852, the services of colored Americans in the War of 1776 and 1812.

Now, there's a book done by William Nell, and by the way William Nell is the first black American to have any position in federal

Garban. And this is his kind of introduction to look at all the black Patriots

we had in the Revolution Wars of 1812 and then he came back three years later

with a really big book and this is the book from three years later. The colored

patrons of the American Revolution with the stories of service of these

distinguished colored patrons. You go through here and there are scores of

names out of the American Revolution that we

really never heard about.

And so that's already a paradigm shift because most of the time you think about the

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