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In the BBC documentary "The Warship: Tour Of Duty" (S1E2) an American sailor aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth talks about an incident after the US Civil War in which Texas didn't fully abolish slavery until 2 years after, when a British ship came there and told the slaves they were free. Is this real

by /u/CarsPlanesTrains in /r/AskHistorians

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