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 Post-Civil War, many prominent figures saw the army as a “vehicle for African American liberation. William Well Brown wrote about how important the contributions from African Americans were to the Union Army during the war. His writing was just a small part of a greater movement, one that stressed military sacrifice by blacks for political leverage. (Hank L)
+When southern blacks were finally freed, many of them were worried and nervous rather than overjoyed. Many freed African American men knew they were going to be forced to enlist in the Union Army, rather than going home and taking care of their family. Most men were worried about having to leave their family because of the possibility of their family starving and not being able to perform the hard labor for their family. (Hank L)
+Military service fulfilled the longing of Black men to challenge the stereotype of femininity believed to be associated with Black men in slavery. Many whites, on both sides of the slavery debate, believed that slaves were passive and thus effeminate. Black men were unable to protect and defend their families under slavery, contradicting the traditional expectations for masculinity. (Ezra C)
+The service of black men in the Union army was viewed differently by W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass. Du Bois struggled with the relationship that might happen between the manhood and freedom of black men and violence. Douglass, however, felt that the involvement of black men in the military was necessary for their own liberty. (Sarah M)
+W.E.B. Du Bois made the argument that black men were only able to become “real men” in the eyes of white Americans after they killed or died for the cause (in war and rebellion), which is an interesting assertion about the relationship between violence and manhood in the U.S. (Sophia)
+During reconstruction, black military service was used as an argument for black voting rights, citizenship, and emancipation. Some historians make the argument that it was black soldiers that abolished slavery, not Abraham Lincoln.Even during the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 60s used the history of the black Civil War soldier as an argument for activism.This historiography makes the argument that military service gave black men the opportunities, skills, independence, and confidence to become citizens. (Sophia)
+In his autobiography, Frederick Douglass wrote of a time that he refused to be whipped as a slave. He fought back against his master, and he felt at the time that this violence was an important point in his becoming a man.He took this logic and applied it to his military service as a freedman. Black men in the military rehabilitated the passive view of slaves that may white Americans had and gave black men the opportunity to battle their enslavers with the sanction of the government. (Sophia)