Tag: Speech Time Frame: 1861-1877

(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!

For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave … Read More(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!

(1862) William C. Nell Speaks At The Crispus Attucks Commemoration, Boston

March 5, 1862 As the Civil War raged in the South and West, William C. Nell, a prominent abolitionist and historian gave the keynote address at the Crispus Attucks Commemoration in Allston Hall in Boston honoring the only African American among the five men killed … Read More(1862) William C. Nell Speaks At The Crispus Attucks Commemoration, Boston