you know what his ne was? prince whipple. he fought alongside washington during the revolution. take a look at this one. this painting of, this is the marquee, the lafayette. if you look at this, you just think, oh, yeah. then he made his slave dress up like i don t know what. but that s what you would think, right? this guy is incredibly important. this guy may have won the revolutionary war. james armistad was his name. how did he win the revolutionary war? double spy. i m going to let david tell the story in a minute. basically, the brits thought that he was spying for them. but he was spying for general washington. he d give the brits bad intel and reveal the good critical information to general washington. did you know this story? why? i m so tire ed of people say ing it was
just the white people , white people . white people. no. why are we intentionally leaving others out? there are black founders. this is our good friend david barton, the founder and president of wall builders. also author of setting the record straight: american history in black and white. come on up here and sit here. we have lucas morrell, professor of washington and lee university in virginia. welcome. he is also the author of lincoln s sacred effort. okay. david let me where do we start in maybe we should start with james armisted. a great one. james armistad after the battle of richmond, he is in virginia. a lot of battles didn t have in virginia but after the siege of richmond he is there and see what is the british have done in his home state and he goes to enlist. he said, i want to help. i don t know why but he liked lafayette. he went to lafayette. young french general, 19 years old and said i want to fight with you. so they make an agreement and
what happens is james armistad goes over to benedict arnold s camp. british general there. traitor british general. he said the mean americans mistreat me. i have escaped as a slave. please let me stay with you. armistad says yes, you can wait on us. so he is part of benedict arnold s staff waiting on arnold s, one of the generals so he meets with all the other generals. he meets with cornwall all the time. armistad is serving them and picking up intelligence like crazy. every day he gets back with lafayette and says here is what they re doing and going to do next. he kept feeling the information back. cornwalis got comfortable with james and said you know i don t want to ask you to the something you don t want to do but would you consider being a spy against the former guys, the americans? would you be a british spy and tell us what they re doing? he said yeah, i guess if you want me to, i will. if you are going to force me to, i will. he goes back glenn: tough getting across the
but i ll do it for you. i ll try it! glenn: right. so he says yeah, i ll do it. what happens is when they leave richmond they decide they are going to yorktown. they will go down there. what happens is armistad s fed all the information to washington, lafayette they re going to yorktown. he s let the british know, there are no americans around down there, safe place to go. americans are elsewhere. the british fleet drops the soldiers off in yorktown and the fleet takes off, because there are no americans around. right then the french fleet came in and blockaded the ports so the british couldn t get the ships back and now we have american troops to wait for them. pinned in on the peninsula and they can t go anywhere. he probably cut months, maybe year off the revolution by what he did. glenn: one thing missing in america, and it s the key to america, the difference between individual rights and collective rights and this man articulated that. in a spech entitled composite nat
you know what his name was? prince whipple. he fought alongside washington during the revolution. take a look at this one. this painting of, this is the marquee, the lafayette. if you look at this, you just think, oh, yeah. then he made his slave dress up like i don t know what. but that s what you would think, right? this guy is incredibly important. this guy may have won the revolutionary war. james armistad was his name. how did he win the revolutionary war? double spy. i m going to let david tell the story in a minute. basically, the brits thought that he was spying for them. but he was spying for general washington. he d give the brits bad intel and reveal the good critical information to general washington. did you know this story? why? i m so tire ed of people