at 30‚000‚000; the population of African Americans at as many as 8‚000‚000. At the close of the war at least 90 per cent of the Black population was concentrated in the South. The vast majority of the White population was in the urban centers of the North. We actually outnumbered White inhabitants of the
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Intelligence gathered during the Civil war came from many sources however we will look at on the African American role … African intelligence information was some times referred to as “Black Dispatches”‚ this was a term used by Union military men for intelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes. This source of information represented one of the most creative and productive types of intelligence information obtained and acted upon by Union forces throughout the Civil War. Black Dispatches resulted
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Throughout the Civil War African Americans suffered greatly because of discrimination and because of their attempted escape from slavery. Thousands of the free blacks in the Union volunteered to serve in the Union army and to fight against the Confederacy. Although they risked their lives‚ they were not treated very well. At the start of the war‚ colored volunteers were forbidden to enter the army. Congress‚ however‚ changed that in 1862‚ a year into the Civil War. Even though they were allowed in
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superiority‚ but becomes aware that the can no longer maintain it so they do everything in there power to remain superior for as long as they can before forced to slowly desegregate into the rest of the country Slaves played a fundamental role in the Civil War by helping the Union With the Union’s victory against the confederacy blacks become one step closer to equality. The acceptance of runaway slaves into the union was against the Fugitive Slave law of 1850‚ but Union commanders eventually decided to
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After the Civil War blacks were still faced with many different prejudices. Although they were now considered freedpeople and by law were entitled to all of the same rights as whites‚ they still had many limitations on the things they did or even owned. Many blacks were not respected or treated in the same manner as whites and the equality between the two races was still questionable. Under the 13th Amendment blacks were supposed to be freed from slavery and granted all the rights that whites had
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injustices can tear countries apart. The American Civil War had over 500‚000 casualties‚ all of them fighting over African American rights. But whites weren’t the only ones acting as agents of change. African Americans had many ways that they fought for their freedom‚ in combat and out. These methods changed the African American population and the United States forever. Even though most of the African American race was in slavery‚ they still had their ways to fight for their freedom. Because of the
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Before the beginning of the Civil War‚ Americans tried to resolve slavery by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective and changed much too often. It begins with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ends with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861. The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering
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When researching the Impact slaves had in the civil war‚ I didn’t know that even though the north was abolishing slavery and on the brink of war they still wouldn’t let African Americans fight in the war until a law was passed allowing African Americans to fight. I can understand why at first Africans Americans didn’t even want to fight. Even in the north african americans were treated like dirt and even when the country needs help against the south they had to pass a law for black people to fight
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In the late 1870’s the major European powers look towards Imperialistic ideals as a way to strengthen their economy and gain the upper hand in the industrial revolution. This outlook stemmed towards creating new colonies and naturally Africa‚ the closest landmass to Europe was invaded first. There has been Europeans holding in africa going back past the fall of Constantinople but it wasn’t until the introduction of colonies as areas of monetary value and prestige that they really started to get
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