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To become indipendent and give their kids a new (and good) future.

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Q: Why did slaves risk their lives to be free?
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What place would have been ''the promised land in the slaves lives?

The free north.


Were every Black people slaves?

No, Ice-T lives in his own house and is free.


How slaves tried to free themselves?

Slaves attempted to free themselves through methods such as escaping, revolting against their captors, seeking assistance from allies or abolitionists, and participating in underground railroad networks to reach freedom in the North or in Canada. These actions were often dangerous and required great courage, but many slaves were willing to risk their lives for the chance to attain freedom.


How did slaves spend their lives?

they spent there time singing songs and working but praying and hoping to be free


Who help the black slaves escaped by the undergruond railraod?

Abolitionists, who were people who knew that holding another person as a slave was evil and wrong, and were willing to risk their lives to help runaway slaves.


What was the name of the federal agency created to free slaves?

No Federal Agency was created to free the slaves. That was done through the Emancipation Proclamation, and more thoroughly, through Constitutional Amendment. A Federal agency called the Freedman's Bureau was created to help the freed slaves begin their lives as free people.


What is the under ground rail rode?

its where African American slaves would hide and go free for the rest of their lives


What is under ground rail rode?

its where African American slaves would hide and go free for the rest of their lives


Why could Lincoln only free the slaves in the state that were in rebellion and not all of the slaves throughout the country?

President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in rebellious areas of the US in 1863. All other slaves had been freed in the North.


How did the war affected the lives of southern slaves?

After Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (effective, January 1863), Union troops campaigning in the South were licensed to free any slaves they found.


What was one similarity and one difference between the lives of free African Americans in the north and slaves in the south?

one was free one wasnt and they were both African's


What was the major result of the war of 1812 which planted a seed of the American Civil War?

Many slaves were able to escape, and the Southern planters had to face the fact that those slaves had been willing to risk their lives in order to get out.