African-Americans would not stand for slavery any longer. Now that the war had commenced, they would find ways to escape from the hole they had been trapped in. Not only would they travel to the North, but they would also fight in the Union army. The minority would come to avail the Union. They would fight for freedom and citizenship. It may have seemed easy, but going from the Confederacy to the Union wasn’t an easy task at all. African-Americans were willing to give all that they had to have liberation and citizenship in the U.S. Frederick Douglas was an African-American abolitionist who had escaped to the North for his freedom. He was also the author of a newspaper he had called The North Star. The North Star was called that because if you followed the North Star, you would make it to the Union, or the free half of the U.S (OI). The Negroes were inclined to give their lives and expose themselves to bullets in order to have freedom (Doc. 1). This was dangerous for them to travel to the Union because since they were in the war, the ways to get from the South to the North was guarded by soldiers. So on their way there, there were chances of them getting killed if the Union thought …show more content…
The newly established Emancipation Proclamation stated that they could fight if they wanted to. The man wouldn’t fight only for freedom, because that wasn’t all that they wanted. They wanted to be a part of the U.S. as well. Being free and being a citizen were two very different things. African Americans were tired of being treated like dirt. They would be sold like an object, separated from their family because no one cared, and were whipped illimitably because they “didn’t matter” (Doc. 5 & OI). They weren’t going to stand for it anymore. They would escape to the North even if it meant death, because they were willing to give their lives if it meant freedom (Doc.