They were freed after Lincoln died and the Wha was over
By The Emancipation Proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in rebellious areas of the US in 1863. All other slaves had been freed in the North.
In the United States before the US Civil War, slaves were not freed when the slave holder died. In most cases they remained as part of the "property" of the slave owners estate. It is likely that the heirs of the deceased slave owner took over the plantation and kept the slaves.
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution freed the slaves.
He freed slaves.
US Civil War
Proclamation of 1763
Freed slaves, mostly from the US.
When the July 1862 Second Confiscation Act was passed by the US Congress, it allowed for the seizure of Confederate property including slaves which would be freed. What is often overlooked is that the act, signed by President Lincoln, authorized the president to colonize freed Blacks outside of the US borders.
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