Unit Reflections 3
What I learned from chapter 10 is that black people fought in the civil war to gain their freedom. At first Union troops were skeptical about letting black people join in the fight, later on they had no choice and were eager to let them join. Within the union army there were still racial hierarchy just like in the North. I never realized how even in the fight for black peoples freedom they are still racially segregated and thought of as lesser beings compared to white people. This is what I learned in chapter 10, about black peoples participation in the civil war. In chapter 11 I learned about the reunification dilemma, were three groups the Southern whites, recently freed blacks, and politicians. Each group had there own plans and agendas for how they want the country to be run, and there own ideas about how to integrate the disconnected South back into the union. Chapter 11 taught me that times were changing but people could not decide how the country was meant to be ran, this is...
