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At the start of the war, Washington had been a vocal opponent of recruiting black men, both free and especially slaves. However, Black men had long served in colonial militias and probably even saw action during the French and Indian War, but they had usually been relegated to support roles like digging ditches. As war with Britain broke out in the spring of 1775, however, Massachusetts patriots needed every man they could get, and a number of black men -- both slave and free -- served bravely at Lexington and Concord and then at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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