African Americans During The Civil War - 2079 Words

African Americans in the Civil War Everyday, people wake up and take it for granted. Just the simple and small things in life, people don’t seem to really appreciate. They tend to be ungrateful for the things that have been basically given to them. Many people of today do not realize the severity of how hard it was to get to this point in history. African Americans have had to face very strenuous times in order to make this world a better place. African Americans faced difficult times during the civil rights era, some of those hardships were; segregation, voting rights, and assassination of prominent African American leaders. The role that African Americans played in the Civil War was in fact bigger than anyone could ever imagine. One of†¦show more content†¦Most of the men and women were uncertain of what they wanted, and would debate for long periods of time about the most effective way of receiving the rights that they rightfully deserved. They didn’t want to be the inferior class much longe r and while â€Å"(most) of the African Americans would think that eventually their freedom would come easy and that being submissive would give them some sort of respect from the white men.† Others however, thought that the military was in fact the correct way to go, believing that the whites would eventually see their dedication and surrender their freedom and basic rights, although, this was in fact not the case for them. The Civil War would begin to help the Union, as blacks would soon start to flow into their army. As the start of the war, slave masters were becoming weary that their slaves would flee from their respected territory and run to the Union army to help their war efforts. To try and keep them from running off, the slave owners would try and place unrealistic laws against them. Some would even up and move their plantation more inland so that outside Northerners had no chance of communicating with their slaves. However, this did not stop the slaves from fleeing, instead it caused more to want to be near their friends and family who had already left to the North. The