[WhiskeyPapa]

Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and returned to a White House maintained by slaves.

The Gettysburg Address was 11/19/63.

Congress had outlawed slavery in the District of Columbia the previous year.

Walt

[Keith]

The permission of slavery inside the District of Columbia was one of two concessions to the south in the Compromise of 1850. It was a natural concession to eliminate when the region you provided it for had seceeded the year before...

...BTW, the other concession was the hated Fugitive Slave Act...a federal law that northerners discovered "state's rights" when many of the northern states passed laws preventing state officials and/or private citizens from cooperating with.

;)

[gitmo]

I'll have to get my books out. I recall some memoirs of Lincoln where he talked about being very shaken up by the bloodshed at Gettysburg, and going back to the slaves at the White House because he knew they knew how to pray. He became a Christian praying with those slaves.

Of course, maybe the book was wrong.