![]() After Emancipation, Washington’s autobiography primarily details the issues of the Reconstruction Era. ![]() As a result, some slaves were freed before the war officially ended, and some were freed after the April 9th surrender. ![]() Since most Southerners were hesitant to free their slaves, emancipation was actualized once the Union Army occupied the South. While the end of the Civil War in Appomattox, VA on Ap(and the Emancipation Proclamation before that) is often attributed as the official end of American slavery, Washington was most likely freed only when the Union Army passed through the plantation on which he lived. Washington’s autobiography begins with emancipation, or the freeing of slaves upon the Union Army’s victory over the Southern Confederates in Virginia in 1865. As the title suggests, Washington’s autobiography is historically marked by the rise and establishment of former black slaves in American society. ![]()
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