Group of 20 Black leaders of Savannah, with spokesperson Garrison Frazier; General William T. Sherman; Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, "Negroes of Savannah", New York Tribune… (1865)
“ Do you think that there is intelligence enough among the slaves of the South to maintain themselves under the Government of the United States, and the equal protection of its laws, and maintain good and peaceable relations yourselves and with your neighbors? ”
Group of 20 Black leaders of Savannah, with spokesperson Garrison Frazier; General William T. Sherman; Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, "Negroes of Savannah", New York Tribune… (1865)
“ My understanding is that colored persons enlisted by State agents are enlisted as substitutes, and give credit to the States, and do not swell the Army, because every black man enlisted by a State agent leaves a white man at home; and also, that larger bounties are given or promised by the State agents than are given by the States. The great object should be to push through this rebellion the shortest way, and there seems to be something wanting in the enlistment by State agents, for in don't strengthen the Army, but takes one away for every colored man enlisted. ”
Group of 20 Black leaders of Savannah, with spokesperson Garrison Frazier; General William T. Sherman; Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, "Negroes of Savannah", New York Tribune… (1865)
“ It is my opinion that there is not a man in this city that could be started to help the rebels one inch, for that would be suicide. There was two black men left with the rebels, because they had taken an active part of the rebels, and thought something might befall them if they staid behind, but there is not another man. ”
