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Contrabands & Freedmen
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Abraham Lincoln & Freedom
Contrabands & Freedmen
Lincoln biographer Noah Brooks wrote how escaped slaves were treated in the early weeks of the Civil War in 1861: “The slaves of the South were thought by the people of that region to be…”
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