Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, were part of the defending forces of Washington, D.C. Photo shows two rows of African Americans holding rifles at Fort Lincoln in 1864.
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“Form of a Donkey! Shape of an Elephant!”
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A Society with Slaves NOT A Slave Society
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I’m not a nigger, I’m a man, but if you think I’m a nigger, it means you need it.
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From Minty to Harriet
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), African American abolitionist, writer and statesman
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)