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"The border states were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation, but they too (except Delaware) began their own emancipation programmes. When the Union Army entered Confederate areas, thousands of slaves escaped to freedom behind Union Army lines, and in 1863 many men started serving as the United States Colored Troops."

"The very idea of a black man in uniform seemed outrageous to most white Americans in both the North and the South in 1861" - Lincoln and freedom:...

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"The border states were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation, but they too (except Delaware) began their own emancipation programmes. When the Union Army entered Confederate areas, thousands of slaves escaped to freedom behind Union Army lines, and in 1863 many men started serving as the United States Colored Troops."

"The very idea of a black man in uniform seemed outrageous to most white Americans in both the North and the South in 1861" - Lincoln and freedom:...