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Alicia Jeffery: Role Of African Americans In The Civil War

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Alicia Jeffery When the United States erupted into civil war in 1861, the status of African Americans in this country was that of both a free and enslaved people. African Americans were left uncertain about their future, their freedom and their status in American society once the war came to an end in 1865. The Northern states fought to preserve the union, but the Southern states, furious about that 1860 election of President Lincoln, succeeded from the Union with the intent to preserve the institution of slavery (Jeffery 1). Free African Americans in the North held debates and discussed what their roles would be in the war effort, and how to lend a helping hand to their enslaved brethren (Glattaar). Alfred M. Green, who was a free black
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