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not possible at all in parts of mississippi until the whole war was over.
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Hence, that's why the large majority of American slaves
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were not actually within Union lines or technically free,
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in any way, until the war ended.
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I'll make one other point about this.
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There's a nice book by a historian named Stephen Ash.
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It's called When the Yankees Came,
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and it's all about the process
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of Union occupation of parts of the South.
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He goes in and studies towns in Tennessee
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and towns in northern Georgia and towns in northern Virginia,
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and tries to understand,