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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