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We can give a certain amount of credit to both of these groups. The white government of the US amended the constitution, after the Civil War, in order to abolish slavery, but it is also true that large numbers of slaves managed to escape during the Civil War and voluntarily assisted the war effort of the Union, thereby helping to win the war.

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