On this date in 1863

[Bull Snipe]

President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation.

[Snickering Hound]

And slaves in Maryland and Delaware celebrate until they read the fine print...

[Robert DeLong]

Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect.

10 Facts about the Emancipation Proclamation

[doug from upland]

I heard a rumor that he was a Republican. Can that be? LOL

[Robert DeLong]

Care to elaborate on the fine print you refer to?

[Gaffer]

Indeed. Map of slave states in color vs states where proclamation was operative (in red). What about the others? Hmmmmm?

[marron]

Christians abandon the Whig Party because it wouldn’t take a stand on slavery, and establish the Republican Party as an expressly abolitionist party. It is a minority party even in the North and has no chance.

6 years later they elect their candidate to the presidency.

3 years after that, the Proclamation is signed and a couple of years after that slavery is ended in the US.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Yup

[Snickering Hound]

Slaves were only freed in the occupied Confederacy.

[MtnClimber]

The only time the democRATs have been even more upset than the Trump election.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Which freed no one.

[marron]

And yet, a couple of years after it was signed, they were free.

[BenLurkin]

Quite the opposite.

Slaves were not freed in the areas of occupation.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Guaranteeing that over 150 years later things would still be a pain in the ass.

[CodeToad]

“And slaves in Maryland and Delaware celebrate until they read the fine print...”

ROFL!!! Public screwelz teach that Lincoln “Free the Slaves!” Even after making students read that proclamation they fail to conclude it did not free the slaves nationwide.

[CodeToad]

“Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect. “

In other words, Lincoln wasn’t interested in ending slavery, just the rebellion.

[CodeToad]

[GreenLanternCorps]

The President had no power to abolish slavery in the United States.

The President did have the power to strip indivuiduals and states engaged in unlawful rebellion of property used to support that rebellion.

He used it and then enforced it with the Army of the Tennessee.

[CodeToad]

“Care to elaborate on the fine print you refer to?”

It didn’t free the slaves in those territories.

[StoneWall Brigade]

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