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Roles of and Effects on Blacks by Elton John
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Roles: North ●Second Confiscation and Militia Act o July 17, 1862 o Freed slaves with Confederate masters ●10% of Union Army o 19 000 in Navy o 40 000 died throughout war
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United States Colored Troops
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Roles: South ●Recruited to Confederate Army? o Major debate throughout war o 100 recruited; never fought ●Black labor replaced white
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Forms of Discrimination ●Paid less ●Commanded by whites o Segregated units ●Treated worse as POWs
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Effects ●Civil War Amendments o Prohibition of slavery o Citizenship o Voting rights ●Literacy and education improved o Wilberforce University (Ohio) ●Majority in SC legislature
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Population distribution (by % of population) of African-Americans in 1890
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Bibliography http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/4th_United_States_Colored_Infantry.jpg http://www.historynet.com/african-americans-in-the-civil-war http://www.civilwar.org/resources/the-importance-of.html http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aopart4.html http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/images/recruitment-broadside.gif http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/fairfield/saunders_d/guidednotes/answers/unit6/9fans.pdf http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/05/0518001r.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5b.html
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