America in Class Lessons

The Enslaved and the Civil War

By Schramm, Richard R. (NHC Vice President for Education Programs, 1984–2016)

Slaves held in the Confederacy weakened the Southern war effort in a variety of ways and in so doing played a vital role in obtaining their own freedom and in expanding the aims of the war to include not only restoring the Union but also abolishing slavery.

Subjects

History / Education Studies / American History / American Civil War / Enslaved Persons / Slave Resistance / Freedmen / Primary Sources /

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