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[David Lockmiller]

How did President Lincoln “keep alive” within his December 8, 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction an implicit promise made to Frederick Douglass in their meeting at the White House in the summer of 1863?

Did this have anything to do with black soldiers receiving less pay than white soldiers?

In their meeting at the White House in the summer of 1863, Frederick Douglass said:

"Mr. Lincoln, I am recruiting colored troops. I have assisted in fitting up two regiments in Massachusetts, and am now at work in the same way in Pennsylvania, and have come to say this to you, sir, if you wish to make this branch of the service successful you must do four things:

"First -- You must give colored soldiers the same pay that you give white soldiers."
(Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, Chapter IX -- Frederick Douglass, page 187.)

Roger, in a manner of speaking, you are very close to the correct answer but your answer is not correct. Helpful hint: After first, comes second. And, it was President Lincoln's specific response to Frederick Douglass at the time to the second thing listed by Douglass that was the "implicit promise" that he “kept alive” within his December 8, 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.