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African Americans During Confederation Dbq
During Confederation, the Black Americans were divided. I believe they were separated because they traveled to different regions, they settled in different provinces and only some of them went to fight in the US civil war. Black Americans traveled to different regions to escape slavery. 30,000 of them traveled to Canada, many of them went south and some stayed and didn’t want to escape because they were afraid of getting caught.
Black Americans were attracted by recruitment campaigns to settle. After being invited to many campaigns, the Black Americans settled as farmers in in Canada's prairie\ provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. So all of them were in different provinces. During the civil war, 1,000 black Canadians

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