AFRICAN AMERICAN'S IN THE CIVIL WAR

When South Carolina broke from the Union in December, 1860 among its chief complaints was, as it’s Declaration states, “increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery”. Well this week on April 12 will see the day that the Civil War was launched at Fort Sumpter in South Carolina. Now despite how conservatives try to pretend that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War, history says otherwise, and we decided to observe this week with a video recognizing those for whom it was definitely about slavery, and the freedom of not only themselves but those they love. Black soldiers would not get the opportunity to fight until halfway through the war, but fight they did, and as this video points out, all of us are better off for it.