"The Emancipation Proclamation became effective January 1, 1863."
One minor point, have you read the proclamation and do you know just what it did? It supposedly freed the slaves in the South, not the North.
"The fact of the matter is that neither Grant or his wife or his wife's family owned any slaves after January or February of 1863." Proof?
I do concede the quote by Mrs. Grant. I read in a hurry and posted in a hurry. However you haven't proven the point with hard facts just surmises.
Yes I have read it and yes I know where it freed the slaves. And I also know why.
I do concede the quote by Mrs. Grant. I read in a hurry and posted in a hurry. However you haven't proven the point with hard facts just surmises.
No, it you go back and reread my posts I give a number of hard facts. Fact 1, Missouri emancipated all slaves in the state by constitutional amendment in January 1865, 11 months before you said the Grant slaves were freed. Fact 2, Mrs. Grant herself says the slaves were freed around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation and Missouri records support that. You posted her quote yourself. Fact 3, Grant mentions in a letter written in the late spring of 1863 that all the Dent family slaves had left the plantation. So I'm at a bit of a loss as to what exactly you're looking for. The claim that Dr. Williams quote are wrong in so many ways, and misleading in so many others.