When first the rebel cannon shattered the walls of Sumpter and drove away its starving garrison, I predicted that the war then and there inaugurated would not be fought out entirely by white men.
Douglass recalls his early prediction, made at the start of the Civil War, that Black men would inevitably play a crucial role in the conflict.
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