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@oberstenzian Historian James McPherson makes this explicit in The Negro’s Civil War, where he shows that Black Americans saw military service as political action..,as proof of fitness for citizenship and an irreversible blow to the slave system. Douglass understood that dynamic. He pressed Lincoln not because he mistook him for a moral savior, but because he recognized that federal power once moved, could become an instrument of Black self-assertion.