... America's notes, Lincoln allowed slaves to take part in the war: "la Unión había reclutado a dos millones de hombres, entre los que se encontraban unos 186.000 negros" (González de la Aleja 76). Due to that fact, several black men joined the army, in ... several slaves that received the worst treatments. They were discriminates in the battalions, and had a lower salary than white soldiers (González de la Aleja 81). Furthermore, slaves' efforts for reaching freedom date from before the American Civil War, when there also were attempts to reach freedom, ... a Convention was created in ...

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... , the three countries were united as Gran Colombia. Meanwhile, in southern South America, rebellion had commenced in Rio de la Plata under the direction of José de San Martín. Buenos Aires settled for autonomy in 1810 and in 1816 the independence of Rio de la Plata was declared. The remaining Spanish territories fell to San Martín's forces, but by 1825 all of Spanish America ... in making more power for themselves and proclaiming that they be the ones to make the elaborate decisions of the country alone. Toussaint Louverture, like Simón Bloívar and José de San Martín, had many str...

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