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Pay and Promotion
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June 16, 2014 4:28 pm
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Abraham Lincoln & Freedom
Pay and Promotion
Historian Marvin Cain wrote: “The Negro troops so enlisted were not given a bounty, but instead received only laborer’s pay, thus serving for $6 a month less than white soldiers. Angered by this discrimination…”
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