[CIVIL WAR]. New York Daily Tribune. Vol. XXII, No. 6838. New York, 5 March 1862. Featuring Frederick Douglass's call to arms to African Americans to join the military and fight for the Union cause.
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[CIVIL WAR]. New York Daily Tribune. Vol. XXII, No. 6838. New York, 5 March 1862. Featuring Frederick Douglass's call to arms to African Americans to join the military and fight for the Union cause.
8pp, folio, 15 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. Disbound (spotting, separation and chipping to binding edge, creased along horizontal fold). British Museum stamp to front page, additional stamp to back page.
Page 2 features a printing of a speech given by Frederick Douglass in Rochester on 2 March 1863, under the headline: "Men of Color, to Arms! / A Call by Frederick Douglass."
Given just two months after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Douglass's speech urged African American men to join the war in an effort to turn the promises of that Proclamation into reality. Douglass implores, "There is no time to delay. The tide is at its flood that leads on to fortune. From East to West, from North to South, the sky is written all over, 'Now or never.' Liberty won by white men would lose half its luster. 'Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.'"
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