What is the south called during the civil war: The confederate states of America
The difficulties they struggled with was the Bubonic plague also known as the Black Death caused by bacterium yersinia pestis and civil war.
In the 1700's free African Americans had no legal rights. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 helped convince the American Colonies that they had the right to overthrow an unjust government.
They fought a war far from home.