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.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Men 13401.Q
Broadside 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., Formerly part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Object storage, 3rd floor (4)5777 .F.55, http://www.librarycompany.org/mcallisterexhibition/images/3-92.jpg
Broadside continues: This is our golden moment. The government of the United States calls for every able-bodied colored man to enter the army for three years' service and join in fighting the battles of liberty and Union. A mass meeting of colored men, will be held on Friday, July 17, at 8 o'clock, P.M., at Washington Hall South Camden, N.J., to promote recruiting colored troops for three years or the war. Frederick Douglass and other distinguished speakers, will address the meeting., Recruitment coordinated by the local Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments., Formerly part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Men (1)5777.F.68
Civil War recruitment print targeting African Americans by evoking the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a montage of symbolic scenes centered around an African American Union soldier triumphantly holding up a sword and an American flag with the banner "Freedom to the Slave." He stands near broken shackles upon a tri-color flag adorned with a coiled snake. The flag is tugged upon by one of three joyous African Americans freed from enslavement by an African American soldier. Other scenes depict an African American man reading a newspaper on a rocking chair near a plow and child, African American children entering a "Public School" near a church, and a regiment of "U.S. Colored Troops" marching across a battlefield strewn with dead bodies., Title printed on verso., Text of the "Original Version of the John Brown Song" by H.H. Brownell printed on verso., Described in LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, entry #139., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany [(2)5786.F.107b]. Transferred from #Am 1863 All (2)5786.F.107b. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. Accessioned 1987 [P.9179.44], Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Emancipation [P.9179.44; (2)5786.F.107b]
