![]() ![]() ![]() Sims escaped once again in 1863 and returned to Boston in time to see the state’s first Black soldiers, who themselves would soon set foot on Georgia soil. The sight must have appeared surreal to Thomas Sims, who fled from slavery in Georgia to Boston only to be arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act and returned to bondage in 1851. The city’s Black abolitionist community celebrated the sight of armed and uniformed Black soldiers who represented the culmination of decades of activism against the institution of slavery and racial discrimination in the city of Boston.įrederick Douglass must have swelled with pride as eldest son Lewis marched passed alongside men that he and other recruiters helped to enlist. Patriotic bunting hung from windows while bands filled the air with martial music. BOOK PROPOSAL Ĭrowds lined Boston’s Beacon Street on to see the men of the first “coloured” regiment recruited in the North parade to the State House to receive their regimental flags from Governor John Andrew. ![]()
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