If the South had announced "immediately all slaves are hereby freed". what would have happened?

would they all have left the plantation and gone to work across town? Would they all have gone North and died of starvation due to not enough jobs?

would they all have left the plantation and gone to work across town? Would they all have gone North and died of starvation due to not enough jobs? Would they all go west and deal with the Indian wars? How would they all make a living with no education or training?Where would millions of slaves go all at once? The Plantation owners and family would be too busy on their own farms to help. Just curious...

or:would they all have left the plantation and gone to work across town? Would they all have gone North and died of starvation due to not enough jobs? Would they all go west and deal with the Indian wars? How would they all make a living with no education or training?Where would millions of slaves go all at once? The Plantation owners and family would be too busy on their own farms to help. Just curious...

or:You are talking about a genre of science fiction called \"alternate history\". It can be anything your story telling skills can support.

or:The first thing you need to understand is slavery was a legal practice throughout all of the United States, not just the South. Northern states just happened to realize it was a violation of human rights sooner than the South. Southern states saw that it was going to be abolished and, on the argument of state rights, seceded from the United States. To answer your question alternate history question more directly, I would assume slaves would have done the same thing that they did when the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did for them.

or:The first thing you need to understand is slavery was a legal practice throughout all of the United States, not just the South. Northern states just happened to realize it was a violation of human rights sooner than the South. Southern states saw that it was going to be abolished and, on the argument of state rights, seceded from the United States. To answer your alternate history question more directly, I would assume slaves would have done the same thing that they did when the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did for them.

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