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Activist won't stop pushing for Revolutionary heroes' recognition

Right now it's just a small cemetery surrounded by a whitewashed fence with a few overgrown spots where the ruins of former houses once stood.

But the archeological site at "Parting Ways" on the town line of Plymouth and Kingston is arguably every bit as important as the Plimoth Plantation historical site across town.

Parting Ways is the name for a settlement that was home to four African-Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War.

The men — Plato Turner, Cato Howe, Prince Goodwin and Quamony Quash — fought alongside the white New England colonists in their struggle for independence....
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