Less than 200,000 were freed by Abraham Lincoln after the victory of the civil war and the Emancipation Proclamation, because Lincoln didn't have permission to effect slavery in some southern states.
Updated: It's actually a lot worse than this.
The Emancipation Proclamation (1862) was strictly a political move to punish the secessionist states of the Confederacy, which were economically dependent on slavery. Lincoln was willing to allow slavery to continue in states than did not secede from the Union, or who were willing to return.
There was also some thinking that advancing Union armies would be able to arm freed slaves and turn them against their former masters. This executive order did free about 20,000 slaves in Union occupied Confederate states, many of whom were drafted in to the Union army.
While is it factual the Lincoln and his Republican party campaigned against the expansion of slavery, if the states of the Confederacy had negotiated their position (as the states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware did) instead of seceding (1861), slavery might well have continued for another generation in the United States.
The much lauded Emancipation Proclamation did not really free (all) slaves, nor did it make slavery illegal (everywhere), and was not passed as a result of winning the civil war, but as a political move early in the conflict to facilitate the Union using slaves, both economically and as soldiers, to win the war. It did, eventually (1865), provide the legal framework used to free nearly all of the 4 million -odd slaves in the US after the war, but that decision was very controversial, and was why Lincoln was assassinated (1865).
Freed slaves served in the American Revolution, The War of 1812 and the Civil War. The First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first Union regiment formed with freed slaves in the Civil War.
Freed the slaves.
The Freed-men's Bureau
It freed slaves in states outside of the Union. It freed the slaves in the Confederacy. It freed slaves in the rebelling states. It frees slaves. It was issued by American President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, using war time powers to free the slaves of the ten states in rebellion against the United States government. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves.
freed slaves willing to help fight the south
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nearly 4 million
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There weren't any slaves after the american civil war. They were freed by the emancipation act.
It is estimated that 4 million slaves gained freedom as a result of the Union winning the American Civil War. The war was fought from 1861 to 1865.
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The Union
The Union forces won the war.
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution freed the slaves.
Freed slaves served in the American Revolution, The War of 1812 and the Civil War. The First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first Union regiment formed with freed slaves in the Civil War.
the Gettysburg address and the civil war