[SOLVED] The Fight for Emancipation
Construct an essay based on the following question: How did African-Americans fight to make the Civil War about emancipation and freedom? Your essay should use evidence from three primary sources provided below and should be based on your reading and analysis of the primary source documents. Your paper should be 2 to 3 pages in length and use double-spacing and 12-point font. Please use MLA style. Primary Source Documents Choose one primary source from each of the following sections: *Slaves Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom by Louis Hughes Selections from the WPA Interviews of Formerly Enslaved African Americans on Slavery *Soldiers Selections from the WPA Interviews of Formerly Enslaved African Americans on being a Civil War Soldier I Hope to Fall With My Face to the Foe by Lewis Douglass Letters from Spotswood Rice Letter to President Lincoln *Emancipation Selections from the WPA Interviews of Formerly Enslaved African Americans on Emancipation Maryland Slave to the President George W. Hatton: Retaliation in Camp Black Residents of Nashville to the Union Convention