// FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON BLACKS SERVING IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY //

DOUGLASS ON BLACKS SERVING IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. 

Frederick Douglass has been called the father of the civil rights movement. He rose through determination, brilliance, and eloquence to shape the American nation. He was an abolitionist, human rights and women's rights activist, orator, author, journalist, publisher, and social reformer.

Douglass established his own weekly abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, his own periodical titled the Douglass Monthly. In that periodical he wrote the following.

Frederick Douglass, Douglass' Monthly, IV (Sept. 1861), pp 516 - "...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army... as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government... There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still."