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Lecture "The African-American Confederate Soldier"
Honoring the African American Confederate
During the War Between The States, the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in Autumn of 1861, "There are at the present moment many Colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants, and laborers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down any loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the rebels."
In celebration of the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States and Black History Month, the Roswell Mills Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans welcomes the public to hear author, educator and historian Charles Kelly Barrow, B.S., M.A., Ed.S., present a lecture titled "The African-American Confederate Soldier".
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This lecture will be at 7PM on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at the Harp Irish Pub in Roswell, Georgia. There is no charge.
Mr. Barrow is author and editor of Black Southerners in Confederate Armies: A Collection of Historical Accounts and Black Confederates , both by Pelican Publishing, along with numerous other articles and pamphlets on Southern History.
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Mr. Barrow serves as the Lieutenant Commander-in-Chief of the national Sons of Confederate Veterans organization. In addition to the SCV, Mr. Barrow is the youngest commissioner ever appointed to the Georgia Civil War Commission and is currently its Treasurer. He holds numerous other memberships in historical organizations and trusts.
For more information about this event, contact Rick Leake at 770-587-0286.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a Congressionally chartered public charity exempt from Federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The SCV continues to serve as an historical patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a complete history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved. Membership in the SCV is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces, regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin.
