(A) 8 million in the US
(B) 6 thousand in the US
(C) ** 3.1 million in the US
(D) 4.3 million in the US
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -With the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, nearly 4 million slaves were free people by the end of the war, more than 360, 000 of them in North Carolina. Despite their lack of schooling, these African Americans demonstrated a clear vision of what they wanted and a strong determination to get it.
Concept note-2: -It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union’s available manpower.
Concept note-3: -Slavery was not abolished by the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation applied only to enslaved people in states that were in rebellion in 1863, namely South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.
Concept note-4: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."