To most African Americans the Civil War was a way to become free from slavery. After the Civil War blacks would no longer have to be in slavery, and this is why many African Americans signed up to fight for the Union army. They found this war as an opportunity to have rights, and become a citizen. African Americans fought to show that they did have loyalty to the North.
How did the African Americans participate in the Civil War.
After the Civil War, most African Americans voted Republican because Abraham Lincoln was of that political party.
After the Civil war, most African Americans became very low paid servants, and were still very poorly treated.
There was aproximately 180,000 African Americans who died in the civil war
After the Civil War African-Americans controlled churches first.
African Americans there were in the North did fight in the Civil War. This was because African Americans were fighting against the people who enslaved them.
Yes. There is a link below to an article on the history of African Americans in the Civil War.
the african americans were still in slavery during the civil war
After the civil war! (;
access to education
worked on plantations
African Americans fought in the US Civil War, and they spoke out against slavery.