daily blog 3/14

Happy Pi(e) day! The beginning of class we did one of those analyzations of art papers. This one was of the Robert Shaw Memorial but you may be wondering... who is Robert Shaw? Well, we learned all about how he was the (white) leader of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Which was the first African American unit for the Union in the civil war. It was a turning point in the war that these men got to fight yet there wages were less, they weren't really promoted, they were segregated from the whites, and they weren't able to be leaders of their own units! It is kind of sad that even though the Union and the abolitionists wanted African Americans to be free, they didn't exactly treat them fairly as a free person would be treated. If you think about it, they aren't really staying true to their word.