How Did The Civil War Abolish Slavery

The Civil war is said to be the war that resulted in the most casualties in history. Although it did not directly begin as a war against slavery, the Civil War would eventually lead to a war to abolish slavery. Slaves before and during the civil war lived in other regions of the United states. However they may have been slaves all the same, but they lived very different lives. Even after the war was over and slaves were freed their lives would all still be different based on their origins. First in the Union you might think slaves would already be freed, but that wouldn’t be till far later when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. For the time being Mr. Lincoln was too afraid that if he freed any slaves or enlisted them in the army, that the border states would withdraw their support from the Union. There were still the free blacks who quickly rushed to enlist in the army once they heard of the Civil war. Not all blacks could enlist though because of a law passed in 1792 that banned blacks who served in the revolution from bearing arms again. Thankfully however Lincoln signed the Emancipation proclamation in 1863 allowing him to free and enlist once former slaves into the Union army. Some runaway slaves were even recruited as spies. Overall it is almost hypocritical that the Union took so long to enlist
Being that the south was fighting to keep their large success factor to themselves, slaves were kept under close watch. This didn’t prevent the south from enlisting slaves though. Some served in the confederate army but primarily to tend to their masters needs. There are even some reports of slaves taking to the battle in their master's place. Then finally in 1865 as troop numbers were getting short, blacks were actually offered freedom if they joined the confederate army. This never ended up amounting to anything as the war ended before the could even be