Slavery: The Role Of African Americans In The Civil War

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. Another thing I didn’t know was after the war 7 African American soldiers were awarded the act of valor. Thats amazing because it was a step in accepting African Americans as people instead of slaves. Progress was far from over, although the north was working towards fully
America needed more troops, and the only way they could get more troop was to enlist slaves. It’s like asking for help, then when you get help you treat the people helping like dirt. Over the course of me researching the impacts of what slaves had done in the civil war, Slaves getting treated horrible wasn’t the only thing I learned. I also learned that Abraham lincoln wasn’t helping slaves because of his love for them. He did it for stability in the north and to accomplish things in the north that felt should be done. Freeing slaves was an accomplishment but he wasn’t doing it because he felt it was wrong. When learning about how African Americans were not even enlisting after the law was passed was confusing to me at first, because I thought slaves did not have a choice in what they do. That was wrong the law was passed to not only allow slaves to fight in the war but to make them completely free. Slaves had the choice to join or not, and obviously no free slave did at first. It was only until Fredrick douglas talked to free slaves about joining the war and fighting for freedom for all african