During the Civil war both North and south needed people for help to finish task and to help with things the white people couldn't do.
The Northern and Southern armies had pretty different point of views for the Africans services. The South needed the Africans to fill in the places of the white men in the Army who couldn't fill it, they needed the Africans to fight but still as slaves. The North wanted the Slaves to go to the war so the slaves could feel freedom and feel like men. The North wanted the slaves to have peace.
The way the confederacy saw the African Americans was in a horrible way, they saw them as slaves who needed to do harder work. They wanted to slave to fill in spots of the white men because they didn't have enough people for war, They thought of the Africans as people for work not freedom. …show more content…
To me this is disrespectful because the slaves should be the ones getting payed for doing service.
"For every negro furnished, including cooks, the Quartermaster’s department will pay $1.25 per day—owners to feed their negroes ."
This shows that the audience doesn't care for the slaves as much as they care for the whites because they are paying the slave owners.
This quote is saying what the slaves what would be doing, they would be completing the part of the war the whites couldn't.
"Negroes to complete the fortifications."
This shows that they are using the slaves to do work they didn't want to.
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