who freed the slaves? Or to put it a different way, how do you explain the end of slavery? Who or what was responsible?

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who freed the slaves?  Or to put it a different way, how do you explain the end of slavery?  Who or what was responsible?

anonymous · Answer

THE UNION led by Abraham Lincoln's victory led to the abolition of slavery and the most dramatic redistribution of wealth in U.S. history--probably in the history of the world. It made citizens of African Americans and enfranchised Blacks males, who during the period of Reconstruction, when the South was under military control, elected Blacks to numerous political positions, including U.S. Senate.