The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in states that were still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863. Many claimed their freedom by defecting to Union lines where they were designated Contraband. The 14th Amendment ended slavery throughout the country after the war.
Fredrick Douglas, a freed slave in the north, was a major writer who helped wrote stories promoting the abolition of slavery.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. West Virginia was also formed during this time period and remained loyal to the Union. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Your owner would give you a document stateing that you are a freed slave.
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Fredrick Douglas, a freed slave in the north, was a major writer who helped wrote stories promoting the abolition of slavery.
A slave who is freed by his slave owner
Do you mean "if a slave FOUGHT"...? Regardless, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution freed any and all slaves.
Frederick Douglass was a freed slave who gave speeches in the north.
Freed slaves abolitionist lawyer fought against slave trade.
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If someone new the slave, and wondered where he was, the master would tell him that he freed his slave because of a certain reason
No, the first Freed Slave US Civil War hero survived the US Civil War. He died in 1908.
Peter Salem was a freed slave who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
They could be freed.