The Emancipation Proclamation was issued a month later. It freed slaves in the Confederacy (the vast majority) but maintained slavery in the Union states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Those were later freed by constitutional amendment.
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Reassessment complete.
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I wonder if pickin realizes the South ceceeded from the Union over taxes...
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Taxes had been set in the 1850s by Congresses dominated by the South. The war was over secession, and secession was over slavery.
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."
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LOL Lincoln had to say things like that, not everyone in the North was so against slavery. He had to balance everything.
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Lincoln also supported the Corwin Amendment (original proposal for 13th Amendment) which would have made slavery permanent.
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The problem he had was the impossibility of both saving the union and preserving slavery. The question was kicked down the road at the time of the founding, and these principles were always on a collision course. To preserve the union, one side had to lose that argument.
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It completely blows my mind that we are hashing and rehashing this almost 160 years later.
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The actual truthful events make it hard to create good guys and bad guys in a clean narrative. Without a clean narrative, it’s hard to use history as a cudgel for power now. There are people in power that benefit greatly from widespread collective ignorance.
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