African American Sentiments

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the people where used to the idea that different color skinned people worked as slaves. In �gGlory,�h Colonel Montgomery, Sargent Mocati (the Sargent that trained and prepared them for war) and the colonel that was in charge of distributing necessities, served as the people who discriminated the African American soldiers. When in training, Sargent remained strict towards the training of the African American soldiers even after his short talk with Robert about being too harsh on the soldiers and stuff. I think he was racist against the soldiers because if the solders were white, he probably wouldn�ft treat them the same way. When he was teaching the soldiers how to march, some of them couldn�ft tell the difference between left and right. He acted as if all African Americans were uneducated and they were hopeless to teach. Shoes were an essential part of training. Many of the African American soldiers didn�ft even have decent shoes when they enrolled for the war. Naturally, after ...

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