{"id":1393,"date":"2010-05-07T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:44:50","slug":"%e2%80%9ca-gross-injustice%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/05\/07\/%e2%80%9ca-gross-injustice%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Gross Injustice\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32279?size=_original\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1392\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"1864_02_13_detail\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_02_13_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_02_13_detail.jpg 400w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_02_13_detail-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a> African American soldiers in the United States Colored  Troops originally did not receive equal pay. Some northerners demanded that Congress take action and change the policy. <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32279?size=_original\" target=\"_blank\">This editorial<\/a>, which was published in <em>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> on February 13, 1864, asked readers to consider the issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBut the point for every honest man to ponder is this: We invited the colored man to fight for us: they have shown themselves brave, clever, and obedient, and we refuse to pay them what we pay other soldiers. Not to speak again of the sheer breach of faith and wanton injustice of such conduct, a distinction like this, even if it were honorably made, tends to maintain a feeling of caste which would be fatal to the army. All that we ask is fair play for every man who will risk his life for the country; and against foul play\u2026we shall not fail to protest as earnestly and persistently as we can.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congress eventually instituted equal pay in June 1864.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African American soldiers in the United States Colored Troops originally did not receive equal pay. Some northerners demanded that Congress take action and change the policy. This editorial, which was published in Harper\u2019s Weekly on February 13, 1864, asked readers to consider the issue: \u201cBut the point for every honest man to ponder is this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}