The Union never cared about Africans, at least not the majority of them. It was just a whitewashing of their history that makes people think otherwise.
They fought to say "nu uh, you can't leave we own you" to the South, which the obvious irony should be palpable even now. Which is why said whitewashing took place, because on almost no axis except the "slavery" one does the North not come across as the aggressor and in the wrong.
This is all to say they'd still do all the did during the War regardless, even if they killed all the niggers they came across.
To amplify what u/Adamrises said, the Union Army used freed slaves... as slave combat engineers. Literally marched them in front of the Confederates at bayonet point and forced them to dig trenches and build fortifications. I remember having one of the Union officer's letters home read in a college class, and the proto-wokeists was more upset at him openly calling them niggers than by admitting that he had whipped women and children to get them to dig faster.
If any Union general had a time machine and could see this, they’d order their troops to slaughter every African they found.
"We are going to give them what they want. You may be asking what that is. The answer is: Us, exactly how they think we are."
Basics of jujutsu. You push, we pull.
The Union never cared about Africans, at least not the majority of them. It was just a whitewashing of their history that makes people think otherwise.
They fought to say "nu uh, you can't leave we own you" to the South, which the obvious irony should be palpable even now. Which is why said whitewashing took place, because on almost no axis except the "slavery" one does the North not come across as the aggressor and in the wrong.
This is all to say they'd still do all the did during the War regardless, even if they killed all the niggers they came across.
To amplify what u/Adamrises said, the Union Army used freed slaves... as slave combat engineers. Literally marched them in front of the Confederates at bayonet point and forced them to dig trenches and build fortifications. I remember having one of the Union officer's letters home read in a college class, and the proto-wokeists was more upset at him openly calling them niggers than by admitting that he had whipped women and children to get them to dig faster.