When the Emancipation Proclamation was announced, Tennessee was mostly held by Union forces. Thus, Tennessee was not among the states enumerated in the Proclamation, and the Proclamation did not free any slaves there. Nonetheless, enslaved African Americans escaped to Union lines to gain freedom without waiting for official action. Old and young, men, women and children camped near Union troops. Thousands of former slaves ended up fighting on the Union side, nearly 200,000 in total across the South. COUNT 3
QSN1 Which forces controlled most of Tennessee when slaves were emancipated? ANS1 Union QSN2 Up to how many former slaves began fighting with for the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation? ANS2 200,000 QSN3 Which edict freed slaves across most of the Confederacy, but technically not Tennessee? ANS3 Emancipation Proclamation