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To: DoodleDawg

Right. The emancipation declaration didn’t apply to States remaining in the union and didn’t free slaves in them.


139 posted on 06/09/2021 1:28:12 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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To: Pelham
Right. The emancipation declaration didn’t apply to States remaining in the union and didn’t free slaves in them.

No that took the 13th Amendment, as I'm sure you know. He was able to free the slaves in those areas in rebellion as a war measure. The government was allowed to seize without compensation any property of any citizen that was used to support the rebellion. That included slaves.

140 posted on 06/09/2021 2:05:44 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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