On the record
The country learned to know colored troops, and they learned to know themselves.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner reflects on the mutual recognition of capability and self-awareness gained by colored troops.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Other voices in this conversation
