Out & About: Talk examines the impact of Black soldiers at the Battle of Bennington
A young Black man believed to be Pompey Woodward sits astride a horse as he leads Tory prisoners of war after the Battle of Bennington in a mural painted by Leroy Williams and housed by the Bennington Museum. (Photograph courtesy of the Bennington Museum)
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At the Bennington Museum, there’s a mural depicting the famed Battle of Bennington from the American Revolution; one part shows a Black rider on horseback leading away loyalist soldiers taken prisoner during the battle, which was in Walloomsac, N.Y., about 10 miles from its Vermont namesake.