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Black people in the north of the USA started their own school, buisnesses and curches but would still not be considered americain citizens until 1866.

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Slave family picking cotton

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By 1860, industriialisation was booming in the north. More factories sprung up in the northern cities. Some factories produce textiles, some produce materials like steel and iron.

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This is Walter's story

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During the time when slavery was legal, young boys and girls, barely knowing how to walk, could be taken away to become slaves.

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When slaves escape, slaveholders place notices in local newspapers. These posters describe the runaway slave's apparence, age and usually offered a large reward for their return.

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Walter was born in Virginia on a tobacco plantation, then sold to a plantation in Kentucky before he was even able to walk, he remembered his mother running out of the house begin the master not to sell him. After his master died he was sold to another plantation in Missisipi.

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During the times of slavery, when a black man would run away anybody who spots a him on his own, will think he is a run-away.

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When they've really had enough of slavery, black men will attempt escaping, and if they get caught, they will be beat until they're dripping blood.

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They slept in small wooden cabins with other families, We slept on old hay mattress on the floor for a bed and we had no privacy. The mistress won’t even get up to go across the room to get a drink of water. A Negro has to bring it to her.

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In 1860, most railroads of the United States stretched across nothern states. Trains transported raw materials, goods and people faster and easier than ever before.

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Walter had a God-given talent for handling wood and the master let him start doing some carpenting, which he used to build his lifelong dream of being free.

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The cause of the american was because of slavery. In the North of the US, there is the Union. The Union are the states who aren't for slavery lead by Abraham Lincoln. In the South, there is the Confederacy who are for slavery lead by Jefferson Davis.

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The biggest thing that caused the civil war back in 1861 is the different opinions on slavery: The South thought blacks are not equal to whites, and the North did not agree and clame that all men are equal

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The principal thing that caused the civil war was the fact that the south people were willing to continue slavery and north were not

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The north and the south did not get along at the beginning already the north side preferred the city and the south side liked their plantation, so when Abraham Lincoln was voted for president slavery was officially legal. Some time after South Carolina had enough and left.