Yes, there were units of African Americans that fought on the side of the Union.
The former slaves should be on the South's side to fight in the Civil War.
...North?
freemen
No one made slaves go in to war. Slaves chose whether to go in war or not.
citizenship rights for former slaves
sharecropping
Technically slaves could not fight in the war unless they had permission from the owners or there owners had made them fight. But at the end of the Civil War all the slaves were set free this is what the civil war was about the North wanted the slaves to be set free but the south wanted slaves as they relied on them for there economy. this was the Cotton indusrty mainly when the North won the war they decleared all slaves free.
former slaves made citizens
citizenship rights for former slaves
freed former slaves
The Civil War amendments {APEX}
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