Hannah Johnson wants Lincoln to put Southern soldiers to work in state prisons making goods, such as shoes, as a form of leverage until they cease selling captured African American soldiers. She believes this approach, while seeming cruel, is necessary to ensure the fair treatment of African American soldiers and that it is a just course of action.
What does Hannah Johnson want Lincoln to do?
prevent Southern soldiers from working in state prisons
prevent Southern soldiers from selling captured African American soldiers
prevent African American soldiers from going to prison
You must put the rebels to work in State prisons to making shoes and things, if they sell our colored soldiers, till they let them all go. And give their wounded the same treatment. it would seem cruel, but there is no other way, and a just man must do hard things sometimes, that show him to be a great man.
–Hannah Johnson
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