449
Emancipation
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
The Union
Back to Where they came from
449
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
nearly 4 million
Emancipation
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
The emancipation proclamation
He freed all the slaves from slavery and won the civil war.
Slaves living in the Confederate states during the Civil War were freed.
It stated that all the slaves in the Confederacy are now freed from slavery by Presidential decree, and that these freed men are invited to join the army of the north in overthrowing the tyrannical Confederate government.
Freed all slaves by Presidential decree.