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Slaves aware of war's stakes; Charleston blacks sought liberty before Fort Sumter.(PLUGGED IN - NATIONAL SECURITY)(AMERICA AT WAR)(Column)
The Washington Times
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November 20, 2008
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Byline: John Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
During the early years of the Civil War, many whites of both the North and South believed, or pretended to believe, the conflict was about reunion only and had nothing to do with slavery, abolition or equal rights.
The slaves themselves - including two at Fort Sumter - knew better at the very start of the war.
Sumter was a federal fort on an island in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. After South Carolina seceded from the Union on Dec. 20, 1860, Maj. Robert Anderson took his U.S. forces out of the ...
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