Emancipation proclamation.
Also note that it required a constitutional amendment, after the war, to legally free the slaves. The President does not actually have the power to alter the constitution by proclamation alone, and the original constitution did allow slavery.
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Emancipation
The Emancipation Proclamation
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
The Emancipation Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
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Emancipation
The Emancipation Proclamation
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
They remained near the farms where they had been slaves
The emancipation proclamation
Slaves were freed on December 18, 1865, after the civil war. The 13th amendment freed them.
Your owner would give you a document stateing that you are a freed slave.
He freed all the slaves from slavery and won the civil war.