James Monroe Trotter (Q491536)
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James Monroe Trotter
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Slave
Federal Government Official
Music Historian
Union Army Officer
James Monroe Trotter
Enslaved. Free before 13th Amendment. Served in the Union Army as a second lieutenant, advocated equal pay for African Americans soldiers, was elected as the Cleveland recorder, and was the father of the famous Boston activist William Monroe Trotter. Also arguably the first African American music historian.