After the Civil War

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How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans | World news | The Observer
Hundreds of thousands of slaves freed during the American civil war died from disease and hunger after being liberated, according to a new book.

The analysis, by historian Jim Downs of Connecticut College, casts a shadow over one of the most celebrated narratives of American history, which sees the freeing of the slaves as a triumphant righting of the wrongs of a southern plantation system that kept millions of black Americans in chains.

But, as Downs shows in his book, Sick From Freedom, the reality of emancipation during the chaos of war and its bloody aftermath often fell brutally short of that positive image. Instead, freed slaves were often neglected by union soldiers or faced rampant disease, including horrific outbreaks of smallpox and cholera. Many of them simply starved to death.
 

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Those freed from slavery had to wait for a long time even to get their right to vote. Change in such matters is a very slow process.
 

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and the UN is telling SL to resolve our issues within a year... what a hypocrites!
 

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and the UN is telling SL to resolve our issues within a year... what a hypocrites!
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." (Mark Twain)
 

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