Civil War | Finding Freedom | 8
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What Happened to Black Prisoners of Wars?
There wasn't equal treatment of white and black union soldiers by experience. Pay varied from camp to camp on, from region to unit to soldier ad what we know is that black soldiers often received only about a third of the pay of white soldiers in the beginning. And as you can imagine, they protested that injustice. But this lower pay kindo is not even for unequal sacrifices, probably for higher stakes. Because what happened to black prisoners of wars that he rebels caught. Black men are even more vulnerable to being killed by confederates. In 18 64, confederates established a policy that any black soldiers, whether they had been free or enslaved before the war, could be enslaved or re
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