Important Americans

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Washington%2C%20Booker%20T.%2C%201856-1915

This will give you some insight into the daily lives of the people at the time.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/lees%20slave.htm written by a slave.

This also written by slaves
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

Here an online book with history http://books.google.com/books?id=L2RMRwJ1IUsC&pg=PT62id=L2RMRwJ1IUsC&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=american+slaves+who+became+preachers&source=web&ots=RLUwPIou7I&sig=jgLplqmNSvEl2KnQe89SpT9EqrM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA2007,M1

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Washington%2C%20Booker%20T.%2C%201856-1915

This will give you some insight into the daily lives of the people at the time.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/lees%20slave.htm written by a slave.

This also written by slaves
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

Here an online book with history http://books.google.com/books?id=L2RMRwJ1IUsC&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=american+slaves+who+became+preachers&source=web&ots=RLUwPIou7I&sig=jgLplqmNSvEl2KnQe89SpT9EqrM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA2007,M1

For further research: the natural born citizenship was created in order to give these people , former slaves, full citizenship in the U.S. It was not for the purpose of giving immigrants a chance to come to the US and have children to make them citizens and collect welfare or other government benefits.

It is extremely important to know the contributions of these legitimate American people, who were also very loyal to America and to the people that helped them.