Source: www.pbs.org Africans in America series. Resource Bank: Emancipation Proclamation
I have always found the denigration of the Emancipation Proclamation because it was not universally and instantly enforced really odd.
The Reagan Doctrine laid out Reagan’s intention to take the fight to the commies and eventually free their slaves. Which it eventually did, most of them.
Are we to put the Reagan Doctrine down because it didn’t free those groaning under commie tyranny instantly and everywhere?
Similarly, various proclamations of the Allies in WWII put forth their intent to fight till Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally, freeing their slaves?
Should those proclamations be put down because it took a lot of hard fighting to put them into effect?