# Men of Color Civil War Recruitment Broadside 1863

- By: Frederick Douglass
- Date: 1863
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Cowan's Auctions
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Men_of_Color_Civil_War_Recruitment_Broadside_1863.png)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Men_of_Color_Civil_War_Recruitment_Broadside_1863.png
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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