Northern Hypocrisy Exposed

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2006)

Throughout my school years, I had been reading and hearing all this high-handed stuff about how the North's cause in the Civil War was freeing the slaves. Granted, I think slavery is a horrible legacy in the South's history, but this movie shows that the Union treated African Americans no better than the South did. No, they didn't own slaves, but they would not allow African Americans who were willing to fight to fight, they equipped them with hand-me-down uniforms, some of them didn't even have a pair of shoes. They also underpaid the soldiers that did fight and many times they were relegated to doing menial chores, not much different than slave labor. It was good to see that they finally earned the respect of their peers and took part in the final battle. This movie did an excellent job in showing the North's hypocrisy about these issues.