AMERICANS:
In 1861,
as the United States stood at the brink of Civil War, people of African descent
both slave and free, waited with a watchful eye. They understood that a war between
the North and the South might bring about jubilee—the destruction of slaver and
universal freedom. When the Confederacy fired upon Fort Sumter and war ensued, President
Abraham Lincoln maintained that paramount cause was to preserve the Union, NOT
END SLAVERY. Frederic Douglass the most prominent black leader opined that
regardless of intentions, the war would bring an end to slavery, America’s
peculiar institution.”
Over the course
of the war, the four million people of African descent in the United States
proved Douglass right. Free blacks and slaves rallied around the Union flag in
the cause of freedom. From the cotton and tobacco fields of the South to the
small towns and big cities of the North, nearly 300,000 joined the Grand Arm of
the republic and took up arms to destroy the Confederacy They served as recruiters,
soldiers, nurses, spies. They endured UNEQUAL treatment, massacres, and riots
as they pursued the quest for freedom and equality. Their record of service speaks
for itself. Americans have never full realizsed
how there efforts saved the Union.
And so in
honor of the efforts of people of African descent, to destroy slaver and
inaugurate universal freedom in the United States, the Association for the
Study of African American Life and History has selected, “African Americans and
the Civil War” as the 2014 Black History Theme.
We urge all American to study and reflect on
the value of their contribution to
the nation. Endorsed by and Co-chairmaned by George Forman Senior.
DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S
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