The Civil War was a terrible time in the U.S history. Our president, Abraham Lincoln announced emancipation proclamation, making 3 million blacks legally free. Slavery was a embarrassing and pitiful time in our history. The market and selling slaves continued during the war. Slavery played the central role during the American Civil War. Slavery in the south was a wild spread. Slaves were first brought to Jamestown in 1619. At one point slavery gradually spread to all Colonies. After the Civil War, slavery became more and more unpopular. Just as slavery seemed to be dying out, it was revived by an agricultural rebirth in the south. The American Revolution broke out three fourths of the black population lived south of the Mason and Dixon line.
