A group of Black soldiers at Camp Gordon. Many white men in Georgia sought to prevent Black men from being drafted. As in the Civil War, when some enslavers refused to loan enslaved people to the Confederate government for various kinds of war work, some land-owning whites in 1917 refused to allow their Black sharecroppers to register for the draft or to report for duty once they had been called.
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