"James Armistead"@en . "1830-08-09Z"^^ . . . "1760-12-10Z"^^ . . "1830Z"^^ . "James Armistead"@en . "First African American double agent" . . "1760Z"^^ . . "James Armistead Lafayette (December 10, 1760 \u2013 August 9, 1830) was an African American slave who served the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War as a double agent. He served under the Marquis de Lafayette, reporting on the activities first of Benedict Arnold \u2013 after he had gone over to the British \u2013 and then Lord Cornwallis during the run-up to the Battle of Yorktown. He also fed false information to them."@en . "James Armistead Lafayette"@en . .