for a human being to need help every once it awhile, but Washington's pride stopped him from asking for help from the blacks. The only reason blacks are finally allowed in the military is because his rival took the opposite stance on the issue. In my opinion, I believe that neither one of them wanted to have anything to do with blacks in the military. Washington's rival just did what he did to get back at him.
             Was it Washington's pride or racism that dictated his action for ignoring blacks? It has to be a little bit of both because there is no way one goes without the other. When Washington finally allowed blacks to fight in the war, the whites basically made them do all the work with out any recognition. Many Americans do not know that the first casualty of was a black man. Americans just hear the storybook tale of whites fighting for their freedom from England, but what about the freedom of blacks in the revolution. B
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