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Men of Color Civil War Recruitment Broadside 1863
1863
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Cowan's Auctions
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A printed broadside recruiting men of color to enlist in the U.S. military after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The broadside was written by Frederick Douglass, signed by Douglass along with 54 leaders in the Philadelphia African American community, and published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Signers were:
Robert M. Adger, Rev. W.J. Alston, P.J. Armstrong, Rev. J. Asher, E.D. Bassett, Ebenezer Black, Rev. J. Boulden, Thomas J. Bowers, David B. Bowser, John P. Burr, Rev. J.P. Campbell, A.S. Cassey, J.W. Cassey, O.V. Catto, Rev. Wm. T. Catto, I.D. Cliff, Daniel Colley, Henry M. Cropper, Elijah J. Davis, N.W. Depee, Augustus Dorsey, Thomas. J. Dorsey, Frederick Douglass, Wm. D. Forten, Daniel George, Rev. J.C. Gibbs, Wm. E. Gipson, Jesse E. Glasgow, Jameso R. Gordon, A.M. Green, Morris Hall, J.P. Johnson, Robert Jones, Jas. McCrummell, Henry Minton, James Needham, J.W. Page, John W. Price, Rev. J.B. Reeve, L.R. Seymour, J.W. Simpson, S. Morgan Smith, Rev. Stephen Smith, Rev. A.L. Stanford, Samuel Stewart, Rev. J B Trusty, D.D. Turner, Franklin Turner, Rev. J. Underdue, Rev. Elisha Weaver, Jacob C. White, J.C. White, Jr., Wm. Whipper, Rev. J.A. Williams, Dr. J.H. Wilson
