... pray and shout and mix up my name with Moses"(Golay 29). As many as 25,000 left their plantations to join the army. Sherman did all he could to discourage the exodus because he could not afford to feed, clothe, or shelter these new additions. Consequently, Sherman promised a 40-acre plot of land and a mule to the freed blacks. Blacks ... members appear to have such a great fear of life, that they blame all human indecency on blacks and others racial minorities. Whites felt the intimidation and all the violence would discourage the blacks from asking for their rights, which they so dilig...

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... would be a free state or a slave state. This launched a bloody battle in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers, and Kansas became known as " Bleeding Kansas". The Kansas-Nebraska Act also severely weakened the Democratic party in the free states (Hughes 48-49, Katz 79 -82). In 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union, quickly followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana ... commander buried Commander Shaw with his Negro soldiers because he thought that such a burial would humiliate the Boston abolitionist after death (Hughes 180- 182,Katz 28-32). The South...

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