Not only that, but white people want to tell us that they died in the Civil War to free Black people. Therefore, reparations were paid in full with their lives. A bunch of BS. It took 100,000 free Black men and women who joined the North to end the Civil War. The North was losing to the South before then. Why did Blacks fight? To free their people, relatives, and loved ones, whereas any man or woman would fight harder for freedom, their loved ones, and to end slavery. No white man who joined or was drafted into the Civil War fought to free any Black people. Both the South and the North owned slaves, and there were some big slave auctions and plantations in the North just as well. It was solely a political disagreement and battle between white people. Blacks were simply caught in the middle of it and had their own agenda.