... erase their equally striking dissimilarities nor detract from the significance of these dissimilarities. In my opinion I believe that the differences were more than enough to provoke the coming of the civil war. Economically, Edward Pessen argues that Northerners and Southerners alike made the same living primarily in agriculture. Due to geographical climate differences both east and south specialized in different crops ... ...

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... runaways whose acumen and skill were cited as unique and superior to those of males, organizers and operatives. The sued for freedom and in some states they won. During the civil war, African American slave women escaped to work with the Union Army as laundresses, cooks and scouts and in other capacities as well. The emancipation Proclamation and the constitutional amendments ... ...

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