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Blacks in the Civil War
- 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
- Words to Know
- People to Know
- Northerners Organize to Help the "Contrabands"
- The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts...
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