Perhaps, if you had gotten a "government" education, you'd know about the Emancipation Proclamation, which offered freedom to any slave in any of the Confederate States who did not return to the Union, which meant that any slave who escaped from the South or who lived in a state occupied by the Union Army would be free.
You may have also learned that Lincoln was an astute politician who knew that America would not fight simply to free slaves, which is why (up until the Emancipation Proclamation) the entire focus of the war was on reuniting the country.
You would also have learned that the Amendments of which you speak -- actually, you only spoke of one, the 14th, which didn't actually free the slaves, but rather gave them citizenship and limited civil rights whereas the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and the slave trade -- were passed in large part because the people who could have effectively blocked them had already seceded from the Union.
Having a clue is not a bad thing. You should try it some day.
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