Who writes this stuff? One of the endearing myths of American history is that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves: It freed no one! All one has to do is read the damn thing and with a half ounce of brain matter and an iota of familiarity with American history one will easily conclude (correctly( that the EP did not free anyone and was not intended to free anyone.
Abraham Lincoln knew that the slaves were freed by the blood and sweat of the union soldiers.
Obama will thank their descendants with a bill for reparations.
Just curious. What do you think happened as Union troops advanced into areas covered by the EP? Did not the slaves in those areas become free? In practical terms, did not any slave who managed to reach the Union lines become free?
In the EP Lincoln confiscated enemy property as a war measure. He had no constitutional right to confiscate property of those not warring againt the federal government. It is perfectly plain that he repeatedly pushed for first compensated and then uncompensated emancipation via constitutional amendment.
Are you really criticizing the man for insisting on constitutional procedure?
How did you miss this part?
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."