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Why do you think some leaders called for african American to be allowed to fight in the civil war

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because people were pushing for equality and you need solders who else are you going to turn to?

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President Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, making 3 million blacks legally free. In the war, both sides used African Americans for military purposes; in the South as slave labor and in the north as wage labor and military volunteers.

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