This article is about the enslaved African-American and American Revolutionary War double agent. For the photographer, see James Lafayette.
James Armistead Lafayette
Born
James Armistead
1748 or 1760
New Kent County, Virginia, or Elizabeth City
Died
1830 or 1832 (aged 70–84)
Baltimore or Virginia
Nationality
American
Espionage activity
Allegiance
United States
Service branch
Continental Army
Service years
1781–1783
James Armistead Lafayette (born 1748[1] or 1760[2] – died 1830[1] or 1832)[2] was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation.[3][4] As a double agent, he reported the activities of Benedict Arnold after he had defected to the British, and of Lord Charles Cornwallis during the run-up to the siege of Yorktown. He fed the British false information while disclosing very accurate and detailed accounts to the Americans.
^ abCite error: The named reference Virginia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abQuinn, Ruth (January 31, 2014). "James Armistead Lafayette, (1760–1832)". United States Army. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
^Staff. "James Lafayette (ca. 1748–1830)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities/Library of Virginia. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
^Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1976). The Crisis. Vol. 83–84. Crisis Publishing Company. p. 364.
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