What did many African American men, women, and children gain in the newly freed South?

Freedmen, The Freed Slaves of the Civil War Freedmen was the term given to those slaves who became free men after the U.S. Congress passed the Confiscation Act of 1862. Under this act, Confederates who did not surrender within 60 days of the act's passage were to be punished by having their slaves freed.

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they also gained freedom and the life that they always wanted

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b.lincoln had the victory he wanted for emancipation