Raynors HCA 2019-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/30/2019
Single music sheet, color printed, 5” x 8’, published by Charles Magnus, titled “The Colored Volunteers”, shows a banjo-playing black man on stage. Possibly written by a private in Company A of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first official African American units, “The Colored Volunteers” (also referred to as “Give Us a Flag”) was a song used as recruitment propaganda to encourage black men to enlist during the Civil War. The Chorus repeats, “Give us a flag all free without a slave, We will fight to defend it as our fathers did so brave; Onward boys, onward, it’s the year of jubilee, God bless America, the land of liberty.
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