War promised a lot of African Americans freedom if they completed their task to fight for the country & depending on what war your specifically talking about it also helped them escape things like slavery (this is if you’re talking civil war or something back in the Slave days)Women on the other hand were expected to “pick up slack” and play the mans role and their role as women by doing things like working which was not common for women typically but became common once the men were off at war.
