Slavery and Civil War

Jessie is going to write about slavery and how it led to the Civil War:

Slavery was a big thing in Kentucky when people first started to live here. As you might know most slaves were African American, and back then people thought that African American people were not as important as them (White people). So, as I said before, there were many slaves back then. So many that most Kentuckians (except for those who couldn't afford them) had at least one slave. Though many slaves did get freed or fled.
I read about one man who worked as a slave, but also had a job so he got paid. Very few slaves got the opportunity to have two jobs and get paid for one of them. The man had a wife and I think a few kids. He worked and worked and earned money until he had enough to free his wife. Then he worked more and earned more money until he freed every one, but himself. He kept working to free more and more slaves that were friends and family. Finally he freed himself. Very few slaves get that opportunity to free themselves. Though most slaves got freed when they were a certain age or when their owners died. So there were slaves everywhere!
The sad thing is that a lot of families, if slaves, get separated. I also read that one time at an auction, a family of slaves, a mother and a father, three kids, one four, one eleven and one just a few months old, were sold. First the eleven year old was sold, then the four year old -to another person- then the mother came up holding the baby,someone yelled out "Sell them separately!". So the baby was taken from the mother and the mother, father, and baby were all sold separately. Isn't that sad?
It got so bad that the north started to do something about it. And that started the Civil War. The Civil War had two sides. The north side, that was called the Union. They were against slavery. The south side, that was called the Confederacy. They were for slavery. I do not think that slaves fought, but I do not know for sure.
A sad thing about the war was that a lot of families fought against each other.I heard many stories about that. I also read about these two girls who were both from different sides, were talking about one side. Here is what they said: Girl #1 from South talking about North: "They were the worst things I had ever seen. Instead of uniforms, they were wearing old gray cloaks and looked absolutely miserable!" Girl #2 talking about North. From north: "The people who are fighting on our side are absolutley wonderful! The general is the right man for the job and is very handsome!"

That is pretty much all I know and can remember from what we have read about slavery and Civil War.