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Frederick Douglass Restriction

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The restriction on blacks enlisting exasperated the blacks in the Union Army, an abolitionist by the name of Frederick Douglass was an advocate for the recruitment of black soldiers, he stated to the nation in an article of the Douglass Monthly on just how to end the war. Douglass put pen to paper and stated, “let the slaves and free colored people be called into service and formed into a liberating army into the South and raise the banner of Emancipation.” (Mitgang, 1989) Douglass believed that it was imprudent for the Union army’s to carry on fighting the Confederacy without the help of Negro soldiers, so Douglass asked, ‘why does the Government reject the negro? Is he not a man? Can he not wield a sword, fire a gun, March and obey orders

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