Did I lose all my email? They're hidden?

After I upgraded from OS 10.6 to Mavericks, my Mac kept being slow, then it crashed, so I decided to do a clean reinstall.
I bought an external hard drive, copied all my data to the external drive.
I did this by connecting the external drive, and just "drag and copy" all the files and folders on my internal drive, to the external drive.
I then erased my internal drive, and re-installed Mavericks.
Here's the problem: I can't find my old emails on my backup drive.
Supposed to be under Library and Mail.
Question: Are all my emails "Hidden"
Is this true; that if I just copy normally, all my files, I don't get my email files?
A normal copy doesn't actually copy email?
If so, I consider that a terribly bad design, that backing up/copying normally does not copy your email messages.
How irritating.
Did I lose my email by not knowing to copy hidden files?
Thank you,
Kevin

Hi,
Only you can check this out, depending on the timing too. Can you still use the machine ?
Regards.
BH
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