in what ways was the fate tied in the civil war ?

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How was the African Americans fate tied with the Civil War

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The Civil War wasn't about slavery when it started. There were lots of divisive issues between North and South. Slavery was the issue that put the divisions over the top for the South. The entire economy, society and culture of the South was based on slavery. 

That's why the South seceded. Their whole way of life was being threatened. Lincoln was an abolitionist but his main goal was to save the republic. That's his constitutional responsibility. If he could have gotten the south to rejoin the Union without freeing slaves, he would have done it.

So the Civil War was not fought with the goal of freeing slaves. So the fate of all those slaves and that of free blacks too was tied to the result of a war they really had no part of at first. The way it worked out, Lincoln got a chance to liberate slaves and work towards the civil war amendments to make the change permanent.

It could have worked out the other way. England and France were close to reconizing the Confederacy as a country. The CSA wouldn't be freeing slaves.