I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black.

S. In 1848 he helped organize the Free Soil Party which opposed the expansion of slavery. S.

Army units of black men—including the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry. S. He served as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts between 1861 and 1866 during the American Civil War.