Title: Pacific Appeal - January 23, 1864
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer comments on the way African American soldiers have distinguished themselves on the battlefield and proven wrong those who believed they would not fight for their country. He suggests that other misconceptions and fears about African Americans are being proven incorrect one by one.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Civil rights; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: "Descriptions of the Battlefield"; Campbell Resolution; citizenship; Civil rights; Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation; patriotism; poem; Right of Testimony; soldiers; valor
People: Bryant, William Cullen; Jackson, Andrew
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers