The name of the reform group that worked to end slavery was the abolitionists. The abolitionist movement had leaders such as Frederick Douglass that worked to help free slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Harriet Tubman
The Slave Triangle
the underground railroad
Many fought for the union. There were African American units. A good movie on this is GLORY. Many who weren't soldiers followed the troops and helped in the camps. When union troops came through an area they freed slaves they found on plantations. Many of those freed slaves stayed with the troops and had a nickname called " contraband ". This stems from an event when a confederate officer asked a union officer for the slaves that he had freed. In war contraband doesn't have to be returned so the union officer called the freed slaves contraband to keep from returning them. The name stuck through the war.
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The answer is contraband By Lillieanne Wylde 6G
The name of the reform group that worked to end slavery was the abolitionists. The abolitionist movement had leaders such as Frederick Douglass that worked to help free slaves.
Contraband is a word used to describe illegally imported goods.
Contraband. Later, black soldiers were served in the Cavalry in the West, where the Indians gave them the name "buffalo soldiers". The above answer is not entirely correct. Black troops in the civil war were called United States Colored Troops. Contraband were slaves that escaped into the possession of the Union Army. Tens of 1000's of the USCT's were from the North and would not be considered CONTRABANDS of war. Many of these men were free men of color and never new the bondage of slavery, therefore it would be insulting to them to be characterized as "contraband".
The name Romania is from 1861.
"Thunder Road" (1958). Stars Robert Mitchum.
He NEVER had slaves.
The Former African Slaves invented Blues music as a way to relieve the unhappiness in their lives. People who heard it found it a good therapy for their 'blues' and that's how it got its name.
Civil War
The name given to the voyage of slaves from Africa to america was the Middle Passage.