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To: Snickering Hound

The proclamation as worded only applied to the “rebellious” or secessionist states. Which is where the majority of the slaves were. The thought was not to drive allied states to secession, those states would follow soon enough. The great lie is the civil war was fought over slavery. The war was actually about secessionism.


28 posted on 01/01/2017 10:58:31 AM PST by exnavy (this tagline under construction, pardon our dust!)
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To: exnavy

Yes, but the states secceded because of slavery. So in the end it was about slavery.


43 posted on 01/01/2017 1:12:04 PM PST by OIFVeteran
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