re: #263 NomadOfNorad

They’re talking about Lincoln’s Presidency now on History Channel.

One thing that bothers me about all this Lincoln stuff.

The Emancipation Proclamation dealt only with the Confederacy.
It did NOT outlaw slavery in the northern states.
Not until after the war was slavery outlawed in the Union.

He did it to break the back of the south and to win the war.
Here is the quote

“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom

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