Famed historian Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about this brave soul, “It is not for their own land they fought, not even for a land which had adopted them, but for a land which had enslaved them, and whose laws, even in freedom, oftener oppressed than protected.” What former slave and American spy gained information that aided the Americans in the Battle of Yorktown?

Enslaved man, James Armistead, was given his master's permission to enlist in the Revolutionary War. He worked under General Lafayette as a spy and earned the trust of Benedict Arnold and General Cornwallis, giving the Continental Army the edge. He lived the last 43 years of his life a free man.

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