Fighting for Freedom: African Americans in the Civil War

Author: Helen Sillett

For African Americans, the Civil War was about freedom.

It took a terrible war to end slavery in the United States. Black Americans found many ways to help win the fight for freedom.

Mary Elizabeth Bowser risked her life to spy for the North.

Black slaves helped Northern prisoners escape from the South.

William Tillman fought a whole crew of Southerners to return a stolen ship to the North.

Black soldiers led a bloody attack on a Southern fort.

You will meet these brave Americans, and many more, in this book.