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One thing I noticed was in the beginning of the movie when all the black soldiers have just enlisted and are getting organized was how they were all told to report to the officers according to what it said on their muster sheets. Weren't most blacks illiterate at this time, and therefore not able to report to their officers? The movie showed this not being a problem for them. ~Katherine Stinson~ | One thing I noticed was in the beginning of the movie when all the black soldiers have just enlisted and are getting organized was how they were all told to report to the officers according to what it said on their muster sheets. Weren't most blacks illiterate at this time, and therefore not able to report to their officers? The movie showed this not being a problem for them. ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
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| + | I actually have a question. In the movie, Shaw has to essentially blackmail the General in order to get the orders to let his men fight in a battle. Did Shaw really have to pull strings in order to get his men out there? Or was this all for dramatic effect? I mean, it definitely emphasized how difficult it was for black soldiers to originally see a battlefield, but I felt like this was a bit extreme. --Kelly Wuyscik | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
