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Fire & Thunder:
Exhibit Citations

Fire and Thunder: Massachusetts Blacks in the Civil War

Douglass, Frederick. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Presented at the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, 5 July 1852.
Online at douglassarchives.org/doug_a10.htm. Accessed 30 January 2007.


The First Black Regiments

1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry by Don Troiani. Historical Art Prints.
www.historicalartprints.com


“Line Officers of the First Louisiana Native Guards.” Harper’s Weekly. 28 February 1863, page 133.
Boston Public Library Rare Books Department.


Petition of J. Sella Martin and 25 others to strike out the word white in the militia laws, 15 May 1861. SC1, Series 230, 1861. Massachusetts Archives.