Slaves were guaranteed their freedom in the new United States of America because of what?

Answer 1

because people actually followed the Constitution and also decided to actually look at African Americans as human beings....all set into motion my the emancipation proclamation

Answer 2

what do you mean because of what. because of racial equality. ever one realized that they were humens too.
Beginning in the 1750s, Quaker meetings attempted to persuade their members that they should not own slaves; some who resisted were expelled. Quakers dominated all the abolition societies. There was widespread sentiment during the American Revolution that slavery was a social evil (for the country as a whole and for the whites) and should eventually be abolished. All the Northern states passed emancipation acts between 1780 and 1804; most of these arranged for gradual emancipation and a special status for freedmen, so there were still a dozen "permanent apprentices" in New Jersey in 1860. [6]

The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 declares all men "born free and equal"; the slave Quork Walker sued for his freedom on this basis and won his freedom, thus abolishing slavery in Massachusetts.

Throughout the first half of the 19th century, a movement to end slavery grew in strength throughout the United States. This reform took place amidst strong support of slavery among white Southerners, who began to refer to it as the "peculiar institution" in a defensive attempt to differentiate it from other examples of forced labor.

The large, well-funded American Colonization Society had an active program of shipping ex-slaves and free blacks who volunteered back to Africa to the American colony of Liberia.

After 1830, a religious movement led by William Lloyd Garrison declared slavery to be a personal sin and demanded the owners repent immediately and start the process of emancipation. The movement was highly controversial and was a factor in causing the American Civil War.

A very few abolitionists, such as John Brown, favored the use of armed force to foment uprisings among the slaves; others preferred to use the legal system.


Peter, a slave from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. The scars are a result of a whipping by his overseer, who was subsequently discharged. It took two months to recover from the beating.Influential leaders of the abolition movement (1810-60) included:

William Lloyd Garrison - Published The Liberator newspaper
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Frederick Douglass - Nation's most powerful anti-slavery speaker, a former slave. Most famous for his book, "Narritive in the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Harriet Tubman - Helped 350 slaves escape from the South, became known as a "conductor" on the "Underground Railroad"

Answer 3

Lincoln freed the slaves of the Southern States which he had his troops attack.not the Northern States slaves.he said repeatedly said up to that time that the war was not over slavery but to only keep the union together.But the Northerners were having draft riots.the battle ships even bombarded n.y,c, to kill draft rioters. they were murdering Negroes , In N.Y.C. alone during the war the populace hung and killed over a 1000 Negroes.anyway . he freed the Southern slaves so that they would run away and join the Northern army to fight against the Southerners. which did turn the tide of the war.after the run away Southern slaves joined the Northern army's and when the war ended Lincoln had declared that he was going to colonize the Negroes by sending them all to South America.But he was assassinated before he could implement his plan to rid the country of Negroes.ain't that wonderful that we have so many Negroes in our midst,they make up 12% of the population.mostly they live in larger numbers in the great land of the South.By the way theres five times more KKK members in the north then the South.and segregation is rampant in the North .To this day it is very dangerous for a black to walk in the white areas and neighborhoods in the north, It is a myth that the civil war was over slavery.It was about States rights. and about the massive amount of taxes leveyed on the South by the feds.the Northern States had slaves longer then the Southern States, and they didnt wont to free there negroes.General Grant declared he wasnt going to free his slaves as it was hard to get good help.The victors write the history books.Northerner proved there dislike of Negroes by hanging many 10s of 1000s of them.

Answer 4

Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 5

President Abraham's Emancipation Proclamation.

Answer 6

the guilt trip that the northerners had trying to accomplish the same low cost workers a hundred years behind the people doing it in the south and couldn't compete and was out of focus with the way thing were done and had the money to bring the government to it first think tanks to get guilt trips to end games but only ignited the blood bath of the century

Answer 7

Because everyone deserves equal treatment and the same access to all the United States has to offer. You probably are wondering why immigrants from Mexico should be treated fairly too, huh?

Answer 8

Because the Americans realized that slavery is an ugly thing of the past.

Answer 9

they were told so they would fight against the other yanks. Of course they were then abused until recently so they were sort of lied to by a country thats very good at telling lies to its citizens and the rest of the world

Answer 10

Because of the civil war.