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Jack! come back here, boy! >> there a lot of fugitives who run away and join the continental army or the militias. this is what george ruffin refers to as "leg bail." leg bail is where you actually just run away to the army. it's not an agreement from your owner. and so there are many who run away, and they join. some would remain free. many wouldn't. [ insects chirping ] >> why are you itching for a fight? >> you read the same words that i read -- "all men are created equal." ain't that worth fighting for? >> even as jack sisson takes his independence into his own hands, he is still far from ...

Assault on a small fortification at yorktown. the men on the frontlines are jack sisson and the soldiers of the rhode island regiment. >> boys! >> it takes them less than ten minutes to take the redoubt and this, for all intents and purposes, is the end of the war. cornwallis is trapped. all that stands between him and england is a massive ocean. [ birds chirping ] >> the rhode island regiment is

>> there must've been maybe hundreds of africans who served with the germans. the story was out there from the very beginning, 1775. you come to the king's aid, you can be free. the germans are fighting for the king. >> didn't know there were colored germans. you're not german. you're a slave. >> i ain't no slave! i'm a soldier. and when this war is over, i'm gonna be a free man, and you'll be back in chains. they may give you a gun, but you still just the white man's boy. >> and you're just a slave of a slave.

>> [ yelling in german ] >> remarkably, the continentals hold off the mercenary force, inflicting more than 300 casualties, while suffering just 41 of their own. with this amazing success, jack sisson and the men of the rhode island regiment have more than proven their mettle. [ birds chirping ]

Gave an official statement of his heroism to the massachusetts governor. >> stay there! >> salem! >> help these men reload and fire! >> [ groans ] >> i said reload and fire! >> salem poor, another extremely brave man in the heat of fire. he absolutely stands as one of the great african heroes of the revolution right beside jack sisson. [ birds chirping ] >> jack sisson's story may not be as well-known, but he is no less heroic. having proven himself in the prescott raid, sisson now joins 400 integrated soldiers, commanded by colonel christopher greene, at a