Frederick Douglass: “Soldiers with a mark upon them to show that they were inferior to…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

Soldiers with a mark upon them to show that they were inferior to other soldiers; soldiers with a badge of degradation upon them.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

In his autobiography, Douglass critiques the initial discriminatory conditions under which Black men were allowed to serve in the Union army.

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