How did blacks shape the civil war?

Answer 1

The slave revolts, such as Nat Turner, who was a slave preacher, had been considered a model slave, obedient and respectful by his White owner in Southampton, Virginia.

That is, until Turner organized a band of slaves and, recruiting more as he went along, terrorizing the people of southern Virginia.

Turner started with the family who owned the plantation on which he was a slave. Turner killed some 60 Whites, sparing no one, regardless of age or sex. During the hunt for Turner and his followers, nearly 100 blacks were killed as well. Eventually, Turner and about 20 of his followers were brought to trial, and they were executed.

Harriet Ross Tubman, the "Black Moses," who worked with the Underground Railroad, was a threat to the South. A former slave, she returned to help others escape from the chains of slavery (including her family). From 1850, until the beginning of the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman helped some 3,000 slaves escape to the North and helped some slaves to escape to Canada.

Dred Scott, was a slave who lived in Missouri. His owner was a military officer, who was transferred from various posts. For a period of time, Scott was a slave in the free territory of Nebraska, and in the free state of Illinois. After the officer died, his widow gave Scott to her brother, a Massachusetts abolitionist. They decided to sue for Scott's freedom, since he lived in free regions of the country. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled against both men.

Black soldiers fought in the Civil War beginning in 1862. This was because the Union needed more soldiers to defeat the Confederacy.