Crossroads of the American Revolution - Series of over 50 Editorial illustrations

Since 2014, Joe Barsin has illustrated this large and growing series “Meet Your Revolutionary Neighbors” for New Jersey’s Crossroads of the American Revolution. To learn more and see entire collection, follow this link to their site. Scroll down to see a sample of the collection.

In time for Juneteenth 2020, Barsin just completed this illustration to shed light on Prime, a slave who obtained his freedom by joining Continental Army and becoming a wagoner. He was one of only three enslaved men freed by the New Jersey legislature in reward for serving in the military during the Revolution.

Prime, a New Jersey American Revolutionary Hero