Freed blacks fought for the US at the Battle of New Orleans in Jan 1815, forming 2 bns of the Freedmen of Color and 3 other independent Louisiana militia coys which comprised Gen Jackson's forces which held the cottonbale defences of the city and repulsed the British attacks with crippling losses inflicted by deadly accurate musketry and artillery fire. Now, WI these black veterans, after the war was over, decided to collectively press for greater rights for themselves, their families, and relatives still held in slavery, based on their wartime service, including with the use of force in self-defence against anybody representing white Southern racist authority ? How would the white Southern plantation interests react to such a perceived black uprising against the established social order, and what would be more long-term effects up to Jackson's presidency in the 1830s ? Could there have been a pre-CW inception of the civil rights movement ?