The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in states that were still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863. Many claimed their freedom by defecting to Union lines where they were designated Contraband. The 14th Amendment ended slavery throughout the country after the war.
Fredrick Douglas, a freed slave in the north, was a major writer who helped wrote stories promoting the abolition of slavery.
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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. West Virginia was also formed during this time period and remained loyal to the Union. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Freeman, Free Negro
Your owner would give you a document stateing that you are a freed slave.
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Fredrick Douglas, a freed slave in the north, was a major writer who helped wrote stories promoting the abolition of slavery.
Do you mean "if a slave FOUGHT"...? Regardless, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution freed any and all slaves.
A slave who is freed by his slave owner
Frederick Douglass was a freed slave who gave speeches in the north.
Freed slaves abolitionist lawyer fought against slave trade.
If someone new the slave, and wondered where he was, the master would tell him that he freed his slave because of a certain reason
No, the first Freed Slave US Civil War hero survived the US Civil War. He died in 1908.
Peter Salem was a freed slave who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
They could be freed.
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.