They sometimes grew food for the Union army -novanet
They sometimes grew food for the Union army
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective from January 1863, which declared all Southern slaves to be free.
After the Proclamation, the Union troops were licensed to free any slaves they came across on their Southern campaigms. The actual law that made slavery illegal in the USA was not passed till after the war.
After the Proclamation, the Union troops were licensed to free any slaves they came across on their Southern campaigms. The actual law that made slavery illegal in the USA was not passed till after the war.
Only the ones that the Union troops liberated when they passed through Southern plantations.
They sometimes grew food for the Union army
They sometimes grew food for the Union army
They sometimes grew food for the Union army
Slaves
It licensed Union troops to free any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns.
The Union army created African American units to fight in the civil war. Before that slaves would join the Union units that came into their area to find freedom from the plantations.
As union troops moved through the south they provided help and safety for the slaves. There was one indecent where slaves were behind Union lines and southern soliders wanted the slaves returned to them. In war when there is contraband the side that has it is allowed to keep it, so the union officer told the southern officer the slaves were contraband and couldn't be returned. From that point on all former slaves who sought refuge with union troops were called contraband. I think this explains the response of the Union soldiers to the proclamation.
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Southern states, who already broke off from the union. This meant that President Lincoln had no control over whethere these slaves would be free or not. But once a Southern town or area was freed by Union soldiers, the slaves would be free. This caused help for the Union army from former slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect January 1, 1863.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Southern states, who already broke off from the union. This meant that President Lincoln had no control over whethere these slaves would be free or not. But once a Southern town or area was freed by Union soldiers, the slaves would be free. This caused help for the Union army from former slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect January 1, 1863.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective from January 1863, which declared all Southern slaves to be free.