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As the Civil War began, the Union Navy used a_____ to cut off supplies to the Confederacy.

Navy, on the other hand, was more progressive: There, African Americans had been serving as shipboard firemen, stewards, coal heavers and even boat pilots since 1861.ĭid you know? Sixteen Black soldiers won the Congressional Medal of Honor for their brave service in the Civil War.Īfter the Civil War broke out, abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass argued that the enlistment of Black soldiers would help the North win the war and would be a huge step in the fight for equal rights: “Once let the Black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S. Black soldiers had fought in the Revolutionary War and-unofficially-in the War of 1812, but state militias had excluded African Americans since 1792.