Robert Shaw was a Massachusetts born abolitionist during the Civil War. He volunteered to be the commanding officer of the first all-black unit of volunteers that would fight for the United States against the Confederacy. The unit, the 54th Mass. Regiment, would fight in major moments throughout the Civil War. A great film, that you might have missed, t…
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