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Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War

(gun explodes) (suspenseful music) - Everybody who wanted toend the institution of slavery...

(gun explodes) (suspenseful music) - Everybody who wanted to
end the institution of slavery realized that it wasn't
gonna be ended without an armed conflict

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(gun explodes)
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(suspenseful music)
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- Everybody who wanted to end the institution of slavery
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realized that it wasn't gonna be ended without
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an armed conflict.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:02
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Six West Media

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Movie Summary

Takes a deep look at the Civil War, one of the most studied, debated, and dissected periods in American history, and the heroic figures who helped define and reshape the reality of a democracy.
Frederick Douglass wanted Lincoln - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:08
Frederick Douglass wanted Lincoln
He has a statement that he says, look, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:15
He has a statement that he says, look,
By the fall of 1862, more than a year into the war, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:12
By the fall of 1862, more than a year into the war,
President Lincoln still won't officially recruit black men - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
President Lincoln still won't officially recruit black ...
It's a mindset influential abolitionist, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
It's a mindset influential abolitionist,
He is one of the most influential figures - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
He is one of the most influential figures
- From the beginning of the war, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:10
- From the beginning of the war,
It's something that took the Lincoln administration - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:07
It's something that took the Lincoln administration
- If you look at his editorials, he's very direct - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
- If you look at his editorials, he's very direct
He calls him out as someone who's failing the nation - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:19
He calls him out as someone who's failing the nation
- Lincoln calls for the arming of blacks as soldiers, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:14
- Lincoln calls for the arming of blacks as soldiers,
- [Kareem] Just days after - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
- [Kareem] Just days after
- To recruit black soldiers, Frederick Douglass had - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- To recruit black soldiers, Frederick Douglass had
"Now or never." - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
"Now or never."
- The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
- The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- It's this grand abolition experiment in black soldiering - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:11
- It's this grand abolition experiment in black soldier...
(suspenseful music) - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:09
(suspenseful music)
- But when the time comes to muster them for pay, - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:13
- But when the time comes to muster them for pay,
- White Union Army soldiers got $13 a month. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:06
- White Union Army soldiers got $13 a month.
They ended up getting only $7 a month. - Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 00:05
They ended up getting only $7 a month.