Hi all: I am trying to find information from the Emancipation Proclamation to the 14th amendment (freeing slaves). Were slave owners compensated for the loss of their slaves? Was it done like in the movies where the Yankees road in and the slaves started walking north? These questions were generated by the Park Service during a tour of an antebellum house when he said "The slaves were freed in 1868 - after the owner was paid." I also have documentation where the county govt of Tazewell Co, Va. wrote to Richmond (capital - CSA) stating that they did not have any slaves available for conscription and all their blacks were freemen. Paul Edgar A. Howard wrote: > This is very interesting. I would love to see some post about > families who owned slaves. (Without judgements) Several of my > families owned slaves. One freed them. > > -eddie > > PLEASE HELP! Here is the URL to post information that you may have about > former slaves. THANKS so much!!! > > http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/index.htm > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #3 Support the fight against unrequested junk e-mail (SPAM). > Visit the webpage at: http://www.cauce.org/ > -sysop