Attention Civil War buffs and students of African American history: We’re giving away a signed set of Ronald Coddington’s Faces of the Civil War books! That’s three books, Faces of the Civil War, Faces of the Confederacy, and African American Faces of the Civil War, for the answer to one simple question. The question is below, and the first person to post the correct answer in comments wins.
Good luck!
Q: Name the prominent black nationalist and first African American field officer who said to President Abraham Lincoln, “I propose, sir, an army of blacks, commanded by black officers.”
Martin Delany.
Hi Bailey,
Please send your mailing address to Brendan Coyne, bcc@press.jhu.edu, and we’ll send your books out. You can also call me at 410.516.6951.
Thanks!
Brendan
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Was it Martin Delany?
Martin Delany, if memory serves.
Martin Delaney, if memory serves.
Martin Delany is the correct answer I believe,.
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Frederick Douglas.
Check that, I didn’t read the question carefully. The correct response is Martin Delany.
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It’s rather late to be doing this, the contest having been up for two days, but the first African-American field officer to propose “an army of blacks, commanded by black officers” to President Lincoln was Martin Delany.
As all of the comments here note, the correct answer to the question is indeed Martin Delany. Since Bailey Walsh was the first to post the set of signed books goes to him.
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