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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective from January 1863, which declared all Southern slaves to be free.

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Q: What legal argument gave union armies the right to free captured southern slaves?
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Did the Southern slaves have a war?

Slaves were steadily liberated by the Union armies as they campaigned in the South. They followed these armies to the Northern camps, where they were employed as labourers, and a few joined black regiments from the North.


What law was passed to help southern states captured escaped slaves?

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required that escaped slaves be captured and returned to their owners, even if they fled to free states in the North. This law was part of a series of measures aimed at appeasing Southern slaveholders and maintaining the delicate balance between free and slave states in the United States.


Did the union armies moving from the south help freed most of the slaves?

You mean "Did the Union armies free most of the slaves in the Confederacy during their Southern campaigns?" Not as many as that. But they did manage to deprive a lot of farmers of their labour force.


Who worked on southern plantations?

The field work on Southern plantations was done almost exclusively by slaves. These plantations often consisted of cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco and were very labor intensive.


Did slaves join the confederate of union armies?

the union armies


How were slaves capured?

various ways. Some were threatened, some were captured, and others were slaves after they were captured in a battlefield.


Where were the slaves captured?

in the sea


Did slaves fight in the battle of the stones river?

Unlikely. By chance, that battle took place on the very day that the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. It was only after this that Union troops were licensed to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns. After that, the freed slaves were employed in humble jobs, servicing the Union armies. And then, gradually, they were allowed to join the armies.


How were slaves procured or captured?

Slaves were just attacked by people and either killed or captured. They were then imprisoned until bought.


How did slaves become slaves in Australia?

They were captured or Sentenced to Slavery


Who found the slaves?

Slaves weren't found. They were made slaves by the people who captured them.


What did the barbarians do when they captured them as slaves?

what did the barbarians do for slave work when they wer captured