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Model Lessons and Historical Content Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln And The Colored Troops

Model Lessons and Historical Content Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln And The Colored Troops. Union. Seceded States. Border States. Northern. Southern. Blacks. Blacks. 1860. 1860. 250,000 free. 250,000. black residents. freed slaves. Northern. Southern. Blacks. Blacks.

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Model Lessons and Historical Content Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln And The Colored Troops

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  1. Model Lessons and Historical Content Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln And The Colored Troops

  2. Union Seceded States Border States

  3. Northern Southern Blacks Blacks 1860 1860 250,000 free 250,000 black residents freed slaves

  4. Northern Southern Blacks Blacks 1860 1860 Some states forbade 4 Million Slaves entrance

  5. Northern Southern Blacks Blacks 1860 1860 Teaching blacks Most states barred to read or write blacks from was strongly Public Schools discouraged

  6. WHY FIGHT?

  7. If the Union was defeated they could be forced into slavery Viewed as a chance to achieve equality Financial opportunity.

  8. Douglass Frederick “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter,U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship”

  9. Pre-Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln Lincoln meeting with a black delegation at the White House said, “ we (the two races) should be separated” and that the only hope for the future of the races rested in their emigration to a new land.

  10. Pre-Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of brining about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

  11. Frederick Abraham Lincoln Douglass Douglass referred to Lincoln as “a genuine representative of American prejudice and Negro hatred”

  12. Benefits of using Black Soliders *Additional manpower-180,000 served in union ranks *Blacks had great incentive to achieve victory and would be less likely to desert *Emancipating slaves and using them in the war effort helped to keep England and France out of the war

  13. Freedom Protection Pay Call To Military Duty

  14. Emancipation Proclamation January 1st 1863

  15. Emancipation Proclamation January 1st 1863 The Proclamation freed all slaves in the Confederate States of America. Those slaves in the border states still remained the property of their owners.

  16. Emancipation Proclamation January 1st 1863 Lincoln’s justification for the Proclamation was that in times of war the President has the Constitutional right to confiscate the assets and property being used by the enemy.

  17. Emancipation Proclamation January 1st 1863 With the Proclamation blacks were now allowed to enlist into combat units.

  18. Emancipation Proclamation January 1st 1863 The most famous of these units was the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, consisting of Douglass’ son, whose daring attack on Fort Wagner in 1863 changed sentiment in the North regarding the use of blacks in combat.

  19. Was there equality? Units were racially segregated

  20. Initially blacks were used as laborers only and not allowed to serve in combat Was there equality?

  21. Pay Was there equality? $10 $13

  22. Was there equality? Black units were given less food and supplies along with having to pay for them $-3 $10 $7

  23. Abraham Lincoln In August 1863 Lincoln wrote to Grant that enlisting black soldiers “works doubly, weakening the enemy and strengthening us”

  24. SEVEN MILLION AFRICAN AMERICANS CAN TRACE THEIR LINEAGE TO THESE TROOPS

  25. By August, 1863, 14 Negro Regiments were in the field and ready for service. At the battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana, May 27, 1863, the African-American soldiers bravely advanced over open ground in the face of deadly artillery fire. Although the attack failed, the black solders proved their capability to withstand the heat of battle.

  26. On July 17, 1863, at Honey Springs, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, the 1st Kansas Colored fought with courage again. Union troops under General James Blunt ran into a strong Confederate force under General Douglas Cooper. After a two-hour bloody engagement, Cooper's soldiers retreated.

  27. THE DEATH OF LINCOLN

  28. Frederick Douglass “No class of people…have a better reason for lamenting the death of Abraham Lincoln, and for desiring to perpetuate his memory than have the color people.”

  29. COMPARE AND CONTRAST Early Life Education Strengths Contributions

  30. COMPARE AND CONTRAST Early Life Education Strengths Contributions

  31. Resources

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  35. Web Resources on the History of African American troops in the Civil War: http://www.americancivilwar.com/colored/histofcoloredtroops.html http://www.civilwararchive.com/unioncol.htm http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/ Web Resources of Life of Frederick Douglass: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html http://www.nps.gov/frdo/freddoug.html http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/timeline.html Movie: Glory http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/ Book Resources: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: by Frederick Douglass Battle Cry of Freedom: by James McPherson A Team of Rivals: by Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln: by David Herbert Donald

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