Quote by George Mason
<span>"It is expected our doors will be shut, and communications upon the business of the Convention be forbidden during its sitting. This, I think, myself, a proper precaution to prevent mistakes and misrepresentation until the business shall have been completed, when the whole may have a very different complexion from that in which the several crude and indigested parts might, in their first shape, appear if submitted to the public eye."</span>
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B, Benedict Arnold.
Benedict Arnold switched to the British side in the Continental Army.
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i hope this helped at all.
On January 25, 1863 the Governor of Massachusetts received the authority to recruit black troops. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers was the first black regiment from the North - and also a fine fighting unit.
<span>"It presaged the full-scale organization and employment of Negro soldiers. It initiated the new Negor soldier policy of procedding not by the the parceling out of authority to selected individuals and states but by decree and direction of the War Department acting through the army. This step was the great turning point in the development of the movement to arm the Negro as a soldier."</span>
A lack of demand since farm crops and goods were not being purchased as relatively high frequencies during this time
