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Not until the “Party of Lincoln” apologizes to the American Public for the tens of thousands of former slaves who died as a result of their Lincoln-liberation with no resources provided for their welfare.

Tens of thousands? What lost cause propaganda sheet did you get that misinformation from?”
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Actually, HO is pretty close. The best information I’ve found on this is testimonies from Freedman slaves who were interviewed in 1937.

Here’s how one put it:

“”Of course I hear about Abraham Lincoln and he was a
great man, but I was told mostly by the children when dey come home from school about him. I always think of my Master as de one dat freed me, and anyways Abraham and none of his North people didn’t look after
me and buy my crop right after I was free like Master did. Dat was de time dat was the hardest and everything was dark and confusion.”

Thousands of ‘freed’ slaves were held at Ft. Gibson and many forts where they mostly starved and froze to death.
Testimonies of Cherokee Freedmen Slaves, A 1937 WPA project. Records prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938 assembled by the Library of Congress Work Projects, Administration for the Dist. Of Columbia http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a3906

Thousands of ‘freed’ slaves were held at Ft. Gibson and many forts where they mostly starved and froze to death.

I googled Ft. Gibson + Freed slaves and can find nothing about that. There was a mention of Cherrokee (many of them black slaves) dying 30 years earlier during the Trail of Tears while heading for Ft. Gibson.

Here's the only mentions I could find of a slave at Ft. Gibson after the war. There is no mention of starvation.

http://www.african-nativeamerican.com/cow_tom.htm

I think I read that there were 62,000 known deaths of "freed slaves" due to Lincoln and his Party's magnanimous decision to free but not care for slaves -- it's online somewhere and it's also part of my family's history, since GGGrandpa's 3 former slaves sharecropped with GGrandpa after the War of Northern Aggression. I know this because my GrandAunt had to quit school in 5th grade and cook for "the men." They also shared food with the families of the sharecroppers, too. Not everyone who had slaves was a "simon legree" type person.