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Enslaved and shipped primarily to work the Southern plantations. How many managed to become free people in their own right re businessmen or whatever prior to outbreak of the civil war, and did any rise to prominence during the war and what did they ultimately achieve for there own peoples?



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The most prominent during Civil War times was Frederick Douglass. In the South many slaves, especially in Eastern battlefields, were close to the front near their masters. Whether they were motivated by loyalty or the whip is not so well known. As soon as an area of the South was occupied by Union forces, huge numbers of slaves left their owners and went over to the Union side where they volunteered to help in any way they were allowed. Many men were permitted to join the Army, but were not given combat duty until the latter part of the War. Not surprisingly they were among the bravest soldiers on either side, both because of their total commitment and the high possibility that they would be executed if captured

The Reconstruction was a golden age for Afro-Americans, who quickly established schools, churches, businesses and all the other elements of society. 1876 marked the end of those good times. The election produced no winner, and the matter became the responsibility of the House of Representatives. The Republican Party had become the party of big business rather than champions of freedom. They made a deal with Southern Democrats. "If you vote for our man and let us run the federal government, we will let you treat the Negroes as you wish. As a result the feudalism of the sharecropping system brought things back to a condition not to a condition close to slavery. There has been a huge exodus of African Americans out of the South to all other parts of the country in hope of improving their economic and social condition. Full citizenship finally began to become a reality with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. It's been a long time comin,' but we still got a long way to go.