1. African Americans and the Civil War Economic Impact Casualty Rate
11.3 Life During War Time
African Americans and the Civil War
Economic Impact
Casualty Rate

2. Lincoln Revokes Military Emancipation
General Fremont
General David Hunter
Fremont frees slaves owned by Confederates in Missouri – Lincoln removes him from duty
General Order # 11
Frees Slaves in FLA, GA, SC

3. Confiscation Act (1861) / Second Confiscation Act (1862)
“An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes.”
Colonize free blacks
Compensated Emancipation Act (4/1862)
Ended slavery in Washington D.C. by paying slaveholders for their slaves
General Order 143 (1863)
“Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops”
Equal Pay Act (1864)
Congress grants equal pay for black soldiers
$13 month

5. Recruitment

7. "Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U. S
"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship." - Frederick Douglass

8. Massachusetts 54th All Black Regiment Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Fort Wagner, SC

9. Union economy
Confederate economy
Food Shortages
Lack of labor (whites and slaves)
Union occupation
Supply Shortages
Union blockade
Smuggling
Inflation
“War time boom”
Profiteers
Corruption
Strikes
Income Tax
Women in the workforce

10. Southern Inflation

11. 2013 Income Tax Rates

13. Casualty Rates Why did so many die?
Civil War (Americans killing Americans)
New Weaponry
Rifle
Minie Ball
Antiquated warfare
Limited medical advancements
Amputation very common
Poor sanitation / hygiene
diarrhea, dysentery, lice

14. Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton