Jean-Baptiste Le Paon/Lafayette College Art CollectionJames Armistead, right, later added “Lafayette” to his last name to honor the Marquis de Lafayette for helping him to earn his freedom. In the ...

James Armistead’s life would make a great movie. Under Lafayette, the French general who helped the American colonists fight for their freedom, he infiltrated the British army as a spy near the end of ...

Before there was James Bond, there was James Armistead — who incidentally acted as a double agent against the British during the American Revolution. He was born into slavery on a plantation in ...

As Georgia commemorates the bicentennial of General Marquis de Lafayette’s grand tour of the United States, it is imperative to honor not only the celebrated French general but also the unsung African ...

As a Colonial Williamsburg interpreter, Stephen Seals has played James Armistead Lafayette for more than a decade. But today, he’ll get to re-enact a moment that he wasn’t sure he’d ever get to — the ...

llustration of James Armistead Lafayette from 'The Fox and the Hound, The Birth of American Spying' by Donald E. Markle As an African American psychiatrist with the perspective of having experienced ...