"A Brave Black Regiment"

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This paper takes a critical look at this historical book. The writer briefly examines the context of the book and explains how this regiment was an important factor for the start of Black equality in this period. The regiment was made up of freed Black slaves and despite their contribution, people continued to regard them as less competent and inferior.

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"Many factors contributed to the importance of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Forming this black regiment around the time of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in the midst of the Civil War represents gives one aspect of this importance. Comprised of freed slave residing in the Northeast states departed from the formation of other black regiments because the other black regiments consisted of Southern blacks. The future of all black regiments rested on the conduct of this black regiment in battle. Even twenty-six years after the end of the Civil War and the heroics demonstrated by the black regiments, an undercurrent of racism still existed. This almost unconscious racism appears in the book in spite of the author's, Luis Emilio, relatively enlightened attitudes."

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