Black women aided in the war.
- Sojourner Truth, an ex-slave activist in the women’s rights movement, and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, recruited black troops for the Union army.
- Harriet Tubman led black and white troops in raids on plantation, one of which freed 750 enslaved persons.
- Black women moved with their soldier husbands, and they and their children endured many of the same hardships of war as the soldiers themselves did.
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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