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2026-02-21 18:05 UTC
Lincoln defended delay, urged patience, promised equality later. Douglass left unsatisfied but sharpened. He resumed recruiting not because the system had changed, but because its limits were now visible. Douglass never mistook access for equality. He measured power by how much resistance it required to move—and kept pushing anyway.
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Image: Detachment muster roll for Sylvester Ray, Company B, 2nd U.S. Colored Cavalry, first black soldier to refuse service until equal pay with white troops.
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@Deglassco@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 18:07
Intellectual Map Secondary Sources Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1957. Emilio, Luis F. A Brave Black Regiment: The History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863–1865. Boston: Boston Book Company, 1891. 5/10