On the morning of August 10, 1863. Frederick Douglass walked into the White House to speak with President Abraham Lincoln, there was many crowds waiting there, but there was only one person that was black, Douglass. The only point he was here was to make a deal with Lincoln about the treatment of 10,000 Black soldiers, who got half the money of whites and would get hanged or enslaved of captured. “Douglass and the Lincoln has never met, but had a lot of things in common. They were both risen from poverty and obscurity…”. About 200,000 African Americans were fighting in the Civil War. After the Civil War Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, freed all slaves in the Confederate territory. Later on slavery everywhere was illegal due to the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.