Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”

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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844179.book-part-072

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Abstract

Frederick Douglass, a prominent African American who had escaped from bondage and become an outspoken abolitionist, delivered his speech “Men of Color, To Arms!” before a crowd in his hometown of Rochester, New York, in 1863. Douglass had been called on by a prominent Boston abolitionist named George Luther Stearns to help recruit Black soldiers for the all-Black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry. Although the state of Massachusetts paid for the raising of the troops, the men who enlisted came from all over the United States.

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