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24 Jun 2016 9:57 p.m. PST

… Gunpowder Horn Was Fighting for Freedom—Just Not His Own.

"Simbo, an African-American patriot, fought for his country's liberty and freedom even as a large population remained enslaved

Perhaps nothing demonstrates the American story more provocatively than an artifact that belonged to an African-American soldier, fighting during the Revolutionary War for the independence of the United States, even as his own freedom remained in question.

The artifact, a carved cow horn used to carry gunpowder now held in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, belonged to the American Revolutionary patriot fighter Prince Simbo…"
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