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Blacks in the Civil War

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  • Northern blacks want to join the fight
  • Prejudice leads to race riots in the North
  • Blacks in the Confederacy
  • Word of emancipation spreads in the South
  • Escaped slaves move north
  • Union Army finally accepts black soldiers
  • Blacks' wartime service breaks barriers of discrimination
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  • Northerners Organize to Help the "Contrabands"
  • The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts...

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