The effect of black soldiers in the Civil War

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Presentation

Pages :

9 pages

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Published date :

12/18/2008

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
1. The treatment of African-Americans as second-class citizens.
2. The Civil War and the second war of independence.
Organizations such as the Hannibal Guards.
1. Utilizing all of the anxious human capital available.
2. The 1st South Carolina Regiment.
3. Able-bodied blacks increasingly anxious to fight.
Black army.
1. Black soldiers that died in battle or from illness.
2. The shortage of white officers willing to do the job.
3. 10 percent of the Union forces: blacks.
4. Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
5. The issue of black recruitment and the rifts within the Union army.
6. Undermining the Confederate war effort.
7. Formation of the Native Guards.
8. The massacre of black troops at Fort Pillow.
Conclusion.

Abstract

Throughout the history of the United States, Africans and African-Americans have consistently been treated as second-class citizens. This prejudice is most apparent and appalling in the system of slavery that lasted for more than two hundred years in the United States. In the 1800's tensions over the issue of slavery divided the country into Free states and slave states. The Compromise of 1850 caused more tensions to boil, especially when Congress passed a tougher Fugitive Slave Law, to reduce the number of slaves escaping to the North, which many Northerners refused to follow. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed there to be slave states north of the 36 30' parallel through popular sovereignty (Nevins, 32). This caused people from all over to move to Kansas to fight to decide whether it would be a slave state or not. In 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown attempted to start a massive slave rebellion in Virginia, but failed and was hung, which caused more of a rift between abolitionists and Southerners. In 1960 Abraham Lincoln, whom the South viewed as an abolitionist, is elected, and subsequently, South Carolina secedes from the Union (Nevins, 47).