...as the "South must be subjugated or [free blacks] shall be enslaved." Frederick Douglass urged that "THE SLAVES AND FREE COLORED PEOPLE BE CALLED INTO SERVICE AND FORMED INTO A LIBERATING ARMY." Luiservice" and could be maintained "at private expense." Yet early in the war no northern states organized...

...Douglass, and many others urged him to grant them freedom and enlist the able-bodied men in the army. "Let the slaves and free colored people be called into service and formed into a liberating army," Douglass exhorted the President, "to march into the South and raise the banner of Emancipation among...

...abolitionists and black leaders had been urging since the beginning of the war. Frederick Douglass demanded, "Let the slaves and free colored people be called...raise the banner of emancipation among the slaves." But powerful conservative voices opposed the idea. Some maintained that Negroes would never fight,...

...rights for all African Americans. Three weeks after Lincoln's call for troops, Douglass suggested, "Let the slaves and free colored people be called...raise the banner of emancipation among the slaves." In the same call, Douglass objected, "Until the nation shall repent of this weakness and folly, until...

...Americans. In 1861 — just three weeks after Lincoln's initial call for troops — Douglass suggested, "Let the slaves and free colored people be called...raise the banner of emancipation among the slaves." In the same address Douglass sounded much like an Old Testament prophet, warning and scolding, "Until...

...and then permit them to go across the lines and fight for their freedom! Let the slaves and freed men be called into service and formed into a liberating...raise the banner of Emancipation among the slaves! GERRIT SMITH (politely): And this will end the war? FREDERICK DOUGLASS: The simple way to put an end...

...originated the war. The Civil War and Frederick Douglass And he believed that "this can be done at once, by carrying the war into Africa. Let the slaves and...colored people be called into service, and formed into a liberation army, to march into the South and raise the banner of Emancipation among the slaves." Now...

...in his Monthly that a lenient war would be a costly war. He claimed that the war would end earlier "by carrying the war into Africa. Let the slaves and...the South and raise the banner of Emancipation among slaves" (quoted in Burchard 1965:45). About a year later, Shaw wrote about his ambition to team up...

...Douglass stirred readers of Douglass' Monthly with the message that the best way to end the war was to "LET THE SLAVES AND FREE COLORED PEOPLE BE CALLED INTO SERVICE AND FORMED INTO A LIBERATING ARMY." Douglass rightfully deemed it foolish for the Union to fight the Confederacy with one hand. He questioned,...

...(Matt) Jordan Letters, GDAH. 58. Davis and Swentor, 545. 59. Ibid., 546. in t/u> Givi/ LET THE SLAVE AND FREE COLORED PEOPLE BE CALLED INTO SERVICE, AND FORMED INTO A LIBERATION ARMY, To march into the South and raise the banner of emancipation among the slaves. —...