... let her free at all. She lived on the farm up until a few months before New York abolished slavery. Since Dumont had promised her, her freedom a year before the state emancipation and broken it she took her infant son and ran away. Truth had then been brought from Dumont and then given freedom by the Van Wagenen's. It was then that ... and encouraged them to fight for their country. She would come and visit them and make food for them to eat when they were hungry. It was soon after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued that she moved to Washington, DC. Truth met with President Lincol...

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... good generals. He experimented with many until he found Ulysses S. Grant and made him in charge of all Federal armies. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln made the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, which led to the 13th Amendment. He was reelected in 1864, and by spring of 1865, the Union won the war. Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play at Ford's Theater ... ...

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