The Effect: After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued thousands of slaves were freed from ten Confederate states that were in rebellion. The Proclamation also allowed African Americans to join the Union army and help fight the Confederates which increased the Union’s numbers by about 200,000.

On January 1, 1863, the Proclamation changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free….Emancipation Proclamation.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation and what did it still leave into question according to the Southern States? It stated that all slaves were free. The farmers could not produce all that they did without the slaves. The slaves could not read or write so they could not have a job.

While Texas has been part of various political entities throughout its history, including 10 years during 1836–1846 as the independent Republic of Texas, the current legal status is as a state of the United States of America.

Texas was important to the Confederacy for several reasons. It supplied soldiers and horses for the Confederate Army. The Texas Brigade was one of the…

During the course of the Reconstruction period, many African Americans moved from the state’s rural areas to cities such as Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. On the outskirts of these cities they established “freedmantowns,” which became the distinct African American communities that still exist today.

Most slaves came to Texas with their owners, and the vast majority lived on large cotton plantations in East Texas. The life of a Texas slave differed little from other places in the South. Most slaves had the basics — food, clothing, and a crude log cabin for shelter — but they were kept poor and worked hard.

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