Who freed the slaves?

Question

Dash riprock has done his home work.

Still looking for the correct answer though.

Answer 1

I think you can make the case for caucasians as the ones who freed negroes from slavery. up to the point of whites landing in africa, slavery had probably existed there since the begining of time, and it took the arrival of caucasians to change that history.

Answer 2

Dash Riprock may have done his homework, but he's reading out of the wrong book.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. The proclamation affected slavery only in those states "currently in rebellion against the United States," so it did nothing to stop slavery in the rest of the United States. By that time slavery had died out in the North anyway due to the industrialization and the lack of the labor forces needed by the South to harvest cotton, so the proclamation was a moot point up North.

The topic of Lincoln's authority is widely debated. There are those - of which I am one - who will say that since the Confederacy was a separate nation whose states had left the Union, the proclamation had no legal basis and was not binding in those states. Then there are those that will say that secession was unconstitutional and therefore illegal, and that the Southern states were still a part of the United States and therefore the proclamation was valid and carried the weight of law.

Then there's the timing of the issuing of the Proclamation. Lincoln had drafted the proclamation six months prior and was waiting for the right moment in time to release it. He was rapidly losing support for the war effort up North, and he needed something to swing popular support behind him. After the Union victory at Antietam, Lincoln saw his chance and released the Proclamation. It worked; the release of the proclamation changed the purpose of the Union war effort from a war to preserve the Union to a war to free the slaves. Public opinion was back on his side, which helped him win re-election two years later.

Slavery was not officially deemed illegal in the United States until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in December 1865.

To give a simple answer to your initial question: Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.

Answer 3

The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in territories where Lincoln had no authority. Therefore, it was useless, except as an act of war. Lincoln hoped to promote uprisings against the slave owners by passing this measure.

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in areas occupied by the North.

Answer 4

The Emancipation allowed slaves to be freed in areas of the Confederacy once the Union army secured it, but those areas in Union control when it was issued were excluded, and those slaves weren't freed. Lincoln did free SOME of slaves.

The slaves in bondage in the Disctrict of Columbia were freed by Congress. They were purchased from their owners by the US government, and then emancipated.

The rest of the slaves were freed by the people of the United States. Amendments to the Constitution are introduced in Congress, but they are ratified in the legislatures of the individual states. All the state legislatures ratified the 13th Amendment, including the Southern states, making it law, and abolishing slavery forever in the United States.

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation,but what really freed the slaves were the economic realities.
It got to the point that it would cost less to hire people than to keep them as slaves.

Answer 6

The Jews freed the slaves from Africa. The Jews started and gained the most from the slave trade.

Answer 7

The "slaves" had it good. Down south the ***** didn't work during the winter or during storms. They worked sun up to sun down and that was it. Off on Sunday. Food, housing and medical care.

Up north, immigrants worked everyday of the year except Sunday. When lights became common, they worked up to 18 hours per day. With their rotten 'salaries', nearly all went for food and rent. In places like NYC, immigrant families were crammed into 2 room apts and frenquently had small farm animals with them. They 'went to the bathroom' in camber pots and had to walk down 9 flights of stairs to dump it in the gutter. This was bad enough in winter but in summer, the stench of NYC and Chicago were legendary. The rich in both of those places had summer homes to excape the stench of sewage, garbage and dead animals.

I'm sick of hearing the groid whining about slavery (which the living didn't experience). For now on, I'm going to reminded them on how MY ancesters had it (father from NYC, mother from Philadelphia). Currently, the whites, Asians and Hispanic's are slaves. The average working 7 weeks to pay for the cost of the ***** on our fair land.

Answer 8

The Congressmen that wrote and signed the 13th Amendment, and President Johnson for approving it.

Answer 9

ma granpapi sa the niga god freed us slavs. he sa dat wez waz wippede an beatn lik dawgs fo hunderds o year. i sa wez ants free no mo thans a chimp n da zoos hous iz frees. i canz reed an rites an i canz git no jobbs. iz dat frees?

Answer 10

Lincoln did, but he was forced to. the great emancipator... yeah right