USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Slaves provided agricultural and industrial labor, constructed fortifications, repaired railroads, and freed up white men to serve as soldiers. Tens of thousands of slaves were used to build and repair fortifications and railroads, as haule, teamsters, ditch diggers, and assisting medical workers.

Detailed explanation-2: -1. : a state of the U.S. in which slavery was legal until the Civil War. : a nation subjected to totalitarian rule.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today, most professional historians agree with Stephens that slavery and the status of African Americans were at the heart of the crisis that plunged the U.S. into a civil war from 1861 to 1865.

Detailed explanation-4: -abolitionist Add to list Share. An abolitionist was someone who wanted to end slavery, especially in the United States before the Civil War-when owning slaves was common practice.