Answer: Slavery has been around since the beginning of human civilization and took many forms, those enslaved were of many races black and white. With every civilization in which slavery was common their have been rebellions from those slaves, it would only be a matter of time when slaves in the newly established America would do the same thing. Abraham Lincolns support of freeing slaves may have been political but it inspired slaves to fight against the confederates propelling the inevitable revolt of slaves.
