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Tom, an enslaved man owned by Joseph SeldenSelden, Tom of Hampton, Virginia, sat in his cell in the public jail after being captured by Patriot soldiers following the Revolutionary War Battle of Great BridgeGreat Bridge on December 9, 1775. Undoubtedly, he pondered, in his cold and dank cell, what would become of him as a runaway slave who had taken up arms against Virginia Patriots in the war for American Independence. Would he be treated like a conventional prisoner of war, or would he be punished with a heavy hand as an enslaved man who defied his owner’s authority and who took up arms with the British?

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“Afraid of Having Their Brains Addled with the Noise of the Cannon”: The Battle for Hampton

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    2025年

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  • Justin Iverson

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Tom, an enslaved man owned by Joseph SeldenSelden, Tom of Hampton, Virginia, sat in his cell in the public jail after being captured by Patriot soldiers following the Revolutionary War Battle of Great BridgeGreat Bridge on December 9, 1775. Undoubtedly, he pondered, in his cold and dank cell, what would become of him as a runaway slave who had taken up arms against Virginia Patriots in the war for American Independence. Would he be treated like a conventional prisoner of war, or would he be punished with a heavy hand as an enslaved man who defied his owner’s authority and who took up arms with the British?