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[–] Riste2424 ago 

Lol 😂

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[–] ArielQflip 1 point 6 points (+7|-1) ago 

It's worse than that. There were black slaves in Alabama that didn't find out they were free until the 60's. Masters said the others had bought thier freedom. True story. Sry, no link but it's out there. I read about when I lived in TN decades ago.

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[–] Catfishbelly 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Like the 1960s? Or 1860

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[–] ArielQflip ago 

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[–] Hammernale 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Well if the south had won, they were still enslaved.

Then, following the war somehow the news that the north had won didn’t make it to the slaves in Texas for about six months until a ship landed at Galveston to lay down the law. That happened on the nineteenth of June.

I admit it is hard to understand how people were kept in the dark that long, but presumably normal communications and news reports were not getting in for some time after the war ended.

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[–] Catfishbelly 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

During the war train tracks telegraphs and other means of communication were destroyed.

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[–] bfriend13 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

A lot of news used to come by ship. Not six months, but the Battle of New Orleans occurred 18 days after the treaty ending the war was signed.

The best part of the story is the British commander Edward Pakenham, who was killed in the battle and was supposedly packed in a rum barrel for the voyage back to England for burial. Sailors weren't picky and drank half the barrel before the ship arrived in England. So only his bottom half was preserved.