The “Louisiana Students’ Resoluon” was wrien by a group of een students during the beginning of the Civil War. They wrote this document on campus at the University of North Carolina.
They wrote it to express their loyalty to their home state of Louisiana, and to inform their governor that they were willing to come home and ght in Louisiana’s regiments. “The Philidelphians Forming
Regiments” was composed on April 22, 1861 by Alfred M. Green. He was an African American abolionist, and he wrote this document in the hopes to bring to light how willing and helpful African
Americans would be if they were allowed to serve in the Union army. “The Advance into Virginia” was published in a regimental newspaper on July 5, 1861. This excerpt …show more content…
In “The Philidelphians Forming Regiments” Alfred M. Green directly refers to the role that African Americans played in the American Revoluon to give an example and possibly persuade the Union to allow African Americans to help with the war e:ort.
The rst document was wrien from the side of the secessioners and the last two were on the side of the Union, but they both sing praises of liberty and revoluon. In the “Louisiana Students’
Resoluon”, these college students are wring to express their feelings toward the revoluon that has broken out. They feel so strongly that their liberty to own slaves is at stake that they are ready to leave their easy college lives to take up arms against the revoluon and protect their way of life. The last two documents embody both liberty and revoluon, but from a di:erent side. These two excerpts are promong the revoluon. They believe that the African Americans are being denied their rights to freedom and liberty, and they are willing to go to war to ensure that the oppression ends.
All three documents were wrien because they were worried that their freedoms and liberes were at stake. Similarly, all three authors were willing to parcipate in the revoluon, whether it be