... 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 and federal troop occupation of ht southern states that followed, provide the legal changes necessary for African Americans to enter the political arena as full participants ... ...

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