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This is the essay question:
"How did African-Americans fight to make the Civil War about emancipation and freedom?"

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African-Americans involvement in the Civil War

Introduction

Before and during the 19th century, African-Americans had gone through profound heights of mistreatments, segregation, separation, and worse painful ordeals. Most of the pain and afflictions to the African-Americans had resulted from the fact that they had made their way to America through the slave trade. They had been made to work under extreme pressure in the sugarcane and cotton plantations, mines, and construction and building work, among other extremely difficult tasks (Burnes). The African-Americans had a separate place for living, and their whole life was undesirable, characterized by all sorts of menace, including their childrens death and separation from their spouses, as explained by Hughes. Therefore they would gladly take any chance to emancipate them and accord them some freedom. The Civil war came in handy for this.

Reasons Why African-Americans Chose to fight in the Civil War

To Get Rid of their Inhuman Treatment

African-Americans were treated in a direly inhuman way. In a selection of interviews conducted on African Americans by Cantrell Andreas (p. 45), the African Americans say that they were made to work in their respective places of work that included farms, kitchens, construction sites, and cabins, among others under extremely harsh conditions. The inhuman treatment was also coupled with a high level of whipping and caning. They were never regarded as human beings. Hughes explains that they would be read scriptures that only showed that the treatment and the relationship they had with their masters were right. Hughes continues to explain that the slaves always dreamt of having freedom one day, something they would not dare mention to their masters. They had composed songs that they would sing in their cabins, songs that were supposed to give them an array of hope, and songs which would occasionally get them into trouble when their masters heard them singing. According to Hughes (2002), the slaves were excited when they learned that Abraham Lincoln was vying for the presidency. At the same time, their masters freaked out and were disappointed. They never wanted him to win the elections.

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