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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
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