Class Year
2019
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
Spring 4-3-2017
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Thus far we’ve talked about predominately white Union and Confederate views of the Confederate flag, so for my last piece on perspectives during the war I want to talk about the views of African Americans. For African Americans, especially, the Civil War was tightly intertwined with the matter of slavery. They realized that the outcome of the war would be instrumental in determining the fate of slavery as an institution and believed that a Confederate victory would be detrimental to the prospects of their freedom. If Southerners had their way, slavery would likely never die.
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Recommended Citation
Ortman, Olivia, "Finding Meaning in the Flag: Ex-Slaves and Newsies" (2017). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 243.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/243
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.