Glory, is a Civil War movie, where a division of black soldiers is raised for service in the Union army in the so called 54 Regiment. But it's not only a movie about the battles and military training, it also showed the courage and bravery that it took for these men to commit to the things they have set out to accomplish. They felt they had to prove to the North that they were able to be brave men enough to do what white people could do. .
The main character that called my entire attention was the Colonel Shaw, son of abolitionist parents who decided to lead this group even though he knew they might never be accepted to be in a real battle. He showed to be very strong, trying to insist on a tough discipline with his soldiers and emphasizing in the importance of agility, speed and perseverance. But deep inside he was (in my point of view) very scared for not being able to fulfill all the speculations, and for not making that all of his superiors took his acts for serious.
Anyway, he resolved to prepare his men emotionally for battles, above all because at this point, white and black soldiers began to have differences because of the existing racism. Felling that later disappeared, when soldiers began to come to an understanding of one another.
From my point of view, the main idea of this movie is that during the Civil War, there wasn't much of a difference in the attitudes towards blacks between the North and the South aside from slavery itself. But, of course, they were still considered black people unequal in one way or another. .
In a research I did, I found that the black population was barred from entering the army under a 1792 law, but the fact that black men could become a soldier was not officially recognized until late 1862 . And it was because of President Lincoln's benefit to enlist blacks as soldiers when he did. Lincoln credited this army formed with black people as turning the progression of war.
