They ran their own lives and got jobs and made money
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Emancipation
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
nearly 4 million
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
The emancipation proclamation
Slaves living in the Confederate states during the Civil War were freed.
He freed all the slaves from slavery and won the civil war.
The black slaves were freed and there wasn't any more slavery in the north or the south.
US Civil War