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The need for the amendment was obvious. Of the nation’s four million slaves at the outset of the war, no more than five hundred thousand were now [15 June 1854] free, and, to his disgust, many white Americans intended to have them reenslaved once the war was over.
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― Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment
― Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment
