The blacks has contributed a lot of work to gain their own freedom. For example, the slaves would run from their masters to become contrabands which was enemy property for the union. Also, they would labor behind the scenes for the nothern armies and rick their lives by going on the battle front. Northerners began enlisting blacks to assist them in the fight. Lincoln's second confiscation act and the militia act both of 1862,
Civil War history begs the question why? Ask the average person what caused the American Civil War and they will probably answer slavery. They are right; of course, slavery was the primary and most obvious cause of the war. There had been tension over slavery since the nation’s founding in 1776 and numerous compromises over the slavery issue had served to quell tensions for a time, but never to eliminate them. The most famous was the Compromise of 1820.
“Most of the Northerners did not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery(civilwar).” Slavery was so cruel that many slaves had to figure out ways to escape it. For example, slaves would destroy farm machinery, fake sick and even commit murder but the most common act of the slaves was to runaway(civilwar). In the 1860s, the Civil War in America was the start of slavery becoming abolished. Slaves in the south escaped and went to the North, where Union generals made abolitionist policies. Many Northern abolitionists became aggressive.
The Southern states seceded from United States of America and establish their own nation calls The Confederated States of America and people are more often called rebels. They were led by President Jefferson Davis. On the other hand, North was still known as United States of America, and people called Yankees or Federals. They were led by President Abraham Lincoln. Slavery was main issue of civil war but it’s not the only reason it was fought.
Slavery in the United States Daphne Bartlett 12-3-2013 U.S. History 1 SLAVERY When a person looks at all causes of the Civil War and how it was supposed to be a huge fight to end slavery and to help African Americans have a better life than the one that they were living it was not at all as simple as everyone determined it to be. When you investigate all the causes of the Civil War you always come back to the subject of slavery, included in the five causes of the Civil War you will find that these reasons are not at all separate from slavery. But when looking at it in all different directions you’ll see
The union was fighting for the freedom of slaves and to bring back the union to be united as one. This was way the civil war was started there were numerous battle fought and some of the battles were Fort Sumter near Charleston, south Carolina because this states one of the first states to secede the union was lucky to have a fort that was under the influence of the north in the south
But they were wrongly kept under a sharp eye at all times of their existence and could not attain it on their own sometimes because they were unskillful in fulfilling the way of going about it and other times because their slave holders and masters were so closed minded that nothing but force upon then was instilled when the idea was brought up. One of the greatest rebellions in slave history was brought upon by Nat Turner who was formerly a slave preacher in Virginia. Turner’s rebellion caused an earthquake of emotions in the south and instead of the intended impact it was meant to have, the exact opposite of what was planned happened. “80 slaves had joined Turner’s band, and some 60 whites had been killed” ( Primary Source Reader 31). Slavery affected Nat Turners mental health so much to a point that it was recorded of him saying he saw black and white angels in the sky fighting.
It gave the people of the state the right to decide whether they wanted to legalize slavery or not. Because of this act many pro slavery and abolitionists rushed to the territory in an effort to establish their point of view. There were many conflicts that took place in battles between the two sides during this period. There were killings and fights and in one instance an anti slavery raid led to the killing of a man and his sons who had no slaves or no dealings with slaves. Popular sovereignty, the last remaining moderate solution to the controversy over the expansion of slavery, had failed dismally in Kansas (Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, Stoff, 2005).
Slaves and Freed Blacks Despite the struggle, slaves were emancipated from the institution of slavery after the Civil War. Both slaves and free blacks played an active role in bringing an end to slavery by giving Union troops information about the opposing army to Union troops, leading rebellions, becoming abolitionists, and the act of valor in the Civil War. Slaves played an active role in bringing an end to slavery by giving Union troops information about the opposing army to Union troops and leading rebellions. Runaway slaves would flee to Union troops for safety. Union troops would welcome runaways with clothing and food.
By this time Africans knew that if they came to America to work they would never have freedom, so they stopped trusting Europeans. This caused the Europeans to develop new strategies for obtaining Africans to become slaves. The Europeans started hunting and trapping Africans like animals. This brutal and dehumanizing approach of obtaining more slaves is what caused slavery to be one of the worst events in American history. Europeans started viewing the African slaves as not human at all instead, they saw them as livestock.