One who is entirely under the influence and, a helpless victim according to The Concise English Dictionary.
<Tab/>The war was not against slavery, but a war to save the Union, stated Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln sees slavery as inhumane, he was not an abolitionist, nor was he planning to implement any social and political equality for the white masters and their black slaves. To the Northerners slavery was not their problem, it was the South's problem. Soldiers in the North had no intention to go to the war to free black slaves from slavery. Soldiers in the South were fighting to preserve slavery, because slavery meant free labor, growth, prosperity, large profits and slaves living in bondage. For the blacks both the enslaved and partially free blacks, for them the war meant freedom, an opportunity to prove bravery, loyalty, and possibility of equality in the far future.22
<Tab/>While the Civil war was in progress a lot of Southern slaves mainly those living several kilometers from the fighting scene or battle lines had very little knowledge of what was happening. Most continued to pick cotton or tobacco on the plantation. Some slaves were knowledgeable of the issues of the war, and their meaning for the future of African Americans. …
