ARW with more minority-background leaders

OK, WI there'd been, on either side of the ARW, a prominent military leader who was, say:
-black (whether free or slave, Northern-born or Southern-born- either combination would be interesting)
-female- such as Molly Pitcher writ large
-immigrant- esp German (perhaps with some prominent German immigrant leader on the Patriot side, similar to what Franz Sigel et al were in the ACW, maybe greater recognition of the rights of Germans in America, to the extent of German also being recognised as an official language alongside English ?)

with what poss consequences during the course of the war, then afterwards ?
 
Well afterwards you'd have an excuse to use minorities in ARW films instead of having to crowbar them in to conform with the rest of Hollywood. I hate token minorities.
 
-immigrant- esp German (perhaps with some prominent German immigrant leader on the Patriot side, similar to what Franz Sigel et al were in the ACW, maybe greater recognition of the rights of Germans in America, to the extent of German also being recognised as an official language alongside English ?)

with what poss consequences during the course of the war, then afterwards ?
There was Pulaski, who was Polish- but there weren't very many Polish immigrants to the US until the 20th century. You could have a German commander in his place- but I don't think it would change much.
 
I find it unlikely that most of this would happen, but assuming it did, they would probably go down in history as "a true American hero" and thus lose their original identity to the extant, RL "American" identity. I can't see Congress granting the German language official status, say, just because a German led an army well. They'd be more likely to try to "reward German colonists with rights and priviledges which encourage their assimilation" as opposed to "reward German colonists by recognition of their own cultural uniqueness.

Remember that the Americans didn't recognise or celebrate their status as a cooking pot of culture in this era. They viewed themselves as provincial Brits, albeit ones willing to sever ties with the mother country. German colonists, etc, were just people who had come to be part of their colonial adventure, rather than people who had come to add colour and flair to their national identity. They thought the Germans wanted to be American, rather than vice versa.
 
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