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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.