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around 180,000 free slaves fought for

the Union and helped take a victory

for the North. This war Lincoln

stated was a new birth of freedom

as it would transform the South by

destroying all its basic institutions.

Chapter 7: End of Slavery within the United States. As the

After the Emancipation Proclamation North and South were still at war,

was instated on January 1st, 1863 some of the Southern Confederate

around 3 million black slaves in rebel states would still hold on to slavery

states were freed from their chains until the war ended. It wasn’t

and shackles. This proclamation until 1865, two years after the

however did not abolish slavery Emancipation Proclamation was