There was the role of Congress in allowing the bill to pass and the role of the slaves themselves for making the abolition of Slavery a Union war aim. ... The civil war created a chaotic scene across the border and Southern states which allowed many slaves to flee to the North as refugees. ... It was only the slaves who realised the potential of the civil war to bring about emancipation by helping fight the Union war aim and forcing Northern people to realise that the Union would no longer be compatible with preserving slavery. ... This point is emphasized by the Fredrick Douglas quotation of ...

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The colonization of their new empires by Spaniards and Portuguese transformed the lives of indigenous people in ways unknown to them, destroying their cities and cultures through wars or by epidemic diseases and ruthlessly exploiting the natives as slaves. ... Such finds led to the civil war among the residents of certain regions and outsiders who immigrated to the region threatening and overstepping into the lands of residents they considered their own. ... Many natives who resisted the occupation of Spanish died as a result of wars and battles. ... The cost of boarding an African slave was m...

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