Once let the Black man get upon His person the brass letter, US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulde
r and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can’t deny that he has earned the right to citizenship. By Frederick Douglass What does this quote mean? What is Douglass saying about African American soldiers?
"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship
Before the 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1865, formally ending slavery in the United States, many abolitionists had argued that slavery was already inherently unconstitutional. ... This split between abolitionists' views of the Constitution was more than a legalistic debate.
