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Contributor Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Title Men of color, to arms! Now or never!
Publisher [Philadelphia : s.n]
Date [1863]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.
Is referenced by Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 2nd ed. Suppl. 1445
Notes Caption title. Text continues: This is our golden moment. The government of the United States calls for every able-bodied colored man to enter the army for the three years' service, and join in fighting the battles of liberty and the Union. A new era is open to us ... Fail now and our race is doomed ... Strike now, and you are henceforth and forever freemen!
Signed by Frederick Douglass and 54 influential Black Philadelphians.
Recruitment coordinated by the local Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments.
4to version of (4)5777.F.55; with slight textual variations.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject African American soldiers -- Recruiting -- United States.
Afro-American soldiers -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Afro-American writers.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Genre Broadsides.
Recruiting posters.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | sm # Am 1863 Men 13401.Q
Accession number 13401.Q

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