Ansprachen und Vorträge

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Identifikator:: 1769367772

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-186190

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ansprachen und Vorträge

Place of publication:: Oldenburg

Publisher:: Stalling

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 50 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 4. Vortrag des Herrn Dr. Theodor Heuß, M.d.R., über "Export und Qualitätsproduktion"

Collection:: Economics Books

‘ THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK works. As compensation they were given sub- sistence only. The next step toward freedom and experience was the admission of Negroes to military service. The Washington government rather reluctantly at first armed a few black regiments for garrison duty, but allowed them no pay. The individual northern states then began to send small num- bers into the army as substitutes who were paid as state troops. After much effort on the part of the friends of the race the United States govern- ment in 1863 enrolled Negro regiments, which were regularly armed, uniformed, and officered. But the pay, fixed at $10 a month only, was still unequal to that of white soldiers, and no bounties were given. Not until toward the close of the war were Negro troops placed upon an equal footing with the white forces. The Negro sol- diers, numbering more than 200,000 in all, were recruited partly in the northern states but mainly in those districts of the South which were reached in 1863-1864 by the invading Federal armies. These Negro soldiers and the laborers in the camps, with their families, probably num- bered more than a million persons who, slaves in 1861, were free and to a certain extent trained and experienced before the downfall of the Confederacy. Slavery as a labor system was early destroyed by the mere friction of war in the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mary- land, and Delaware, and in large sections of Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Where the Federal forces came into a community it was

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