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Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney (c.
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1765–1830) was an enslavedAfrican American who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War.[1]
He was a mulatto born in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760s.[1] He moved with his enslaver, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s.
When the Georgia Militia was called up for the war, Aycock sent Dabney in his place.[1] To address objections that Dabney was a slave, Aycock claimed he had been born free.[2]
Dabney became a soldier in Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke's unit.[3][4] Shot in the thigh during the Battle of Kettle Creek on February 14, 1779, he survived but was crippled for life.[2][5] Giles Harris, a white soldier who lived in the area, cared for the injured man in his home.
A close bond formed between Dabney and the Harris family.
On August 14, 1786, after the death of Richard Aycock, an act of the legisl