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To: outofsalt

I always love to remind people that FIVE SLAVE STATES remained in the UNION, as SLAVE STATES.
After Lee surrendered, several of those states remained SLAVE STATES until the passage of the 13th Amendment eight months after the war ended.

So the last flag to fly over legal slavery in the USA was the stars and stripes.


247 posted on 06/22/2018 3:30:13 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You are right that Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation did not apply to the “border” states that had slavery. Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia, and Tennessee were exempt.
In addition, Delaware and Kentucky ended slavery when the 13th ammendment was ratified in 1865


271 posted on 06/22/2018 3:54:23 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
So the last flag to fly over legal slavery in the USA was the stars and stripes.

It also flew the longest of the two. It flew for "Four Score and Seven years" of slavery.

348 posted on 06/22/2018 9:11:16 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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