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Alfred M. Green

A Black abolitionist voice from the Civil War era, remembered for urging African Americans to organize, serve, and claim full citizenship in the United States. His surviving work captures the urgency, courage, and political clarity of that moment.

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Letters and discussions on the formation of Colored regiments and the duty of the Colored people in regard to the Great Slaveholders' Rebellion, in the United States of America

Letters and discussions on the formation of Colored regiments and the duty of the Colored people in regard to the Great Slaveholders' Rebellion, in the United States of America

by Alfred M. Green

About the author

Alfred M. Green was a 19th-century Black abolitionist writer and speaker whose name is most closely linked to Letters and Discussions on the Formation of Colored Regiments, a Civil War-era work preserved by Project Gutenberg and library archives. The record of his writing shows him arguing that African Americans should be allowed to serve in the Union cause and take an active role in the fight against slavery.

Archival material from the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy also places him among the Black political voices of his time, with speeches and convention-related records tied to civil rights and equal-rights organizing in Pennsylvania. Because widely available biographical details about his personal life appear to be limited, he is best understood through the force of his public words: practical, persuasive, and deeply engaged with freedom, citizenship, and collective action.

For listeners today, Green stands out not just as a historical name, but as a speaker who addressed one of the defining questions of his era: who gets to defend a nation, and who gets to belong to it fully.