Kasz216 on 18 April 2009
| sethnintendo said: Yea, they mainly freed them because they wanted more people to help them fight. It worked for the most part considering a decent amount of slaves joined up. |
I think it was more... it gave them the excuse to... + Manpower.
I mean they'd already abolished slaves and the slave trade everywhere else i believe. (I could be off though.)
They just couldn't in the New World because of well the whole continent being malcontents in the first place.








