Friday, August 9, 2013

August 10, 1863---Lincoln confers with Douglass



AUGUST 10, 1863:    

President Lincoln meets with Frederick Douglass to discuss the disposition of the newly-freed. Douglass presses Lincoln to do away with the pay disparity between white and black soldiers. 


This memorabilia of the U.S.C.T. interestingly has the State motto of Virginia upon it: Sic Semper Tyrannis: “Thus Always To Tyrants,” the same words shouted by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theatre.

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