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This Day In Civil War History
April 9, 1865
Lee Surrenders
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Posted on 04/09/2009 6:14:54 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: central_va
The day the concept of a “Free Republic” died. What sort of "Free Republic" holds men in slavery?
To: NavyCanDo
"My God, this is good reading. More from that Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier. - The writer is in a Northern POW Camp June 8 1964..."
You'd think even the d@mn yankees would've paroled him after the first 50 years.
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04/09/2009 2:59:23 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Lurking Libertarian
What sort of "Free Republic" holds men in slavery?Unfortunately, slavery was legal throughout the US at that time.
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04/09/2009 3:41:02 PM PDT
by
central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: Lurking Libertarian
What sort of "Free Republic" holds men in slavery?Unfortunately, slavery was legal throughout the US at that time.
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04/09/2009 3:42:47 PM PDT
by
central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: Joe 6-pack
June 8 1964...”
You'd think even the d@mn yankees would've paroled him after the first 50 years.
LOL! OK OK, June 8 give or take a hundred years. Jeeeeze some people are into such minute details.
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04/09/2009 3:54:34 PM PDT
by
NavyCanDo
(Party like its 1773)
To: central_va
Unfortunately, slavery was legal throughout the US at that time. At the time of Lee's surrender? Not hardly.
More importantly, the abolition of slavery wherever it remained in the U.S. was the direct result of Lee's surrender.
To: Non-Sequitur
Yeah I haven’t read that one yet. He and his co author wrote another alternative WWII book about a decade ago that was pretty good.
To: Lurking Libertarian
At the time of Lee's surrender? Not hardly.Look, I will debate somebody that really knows history, with you this is not the case. On April 9th, 1865 slavery was legal in "every state not currently in rebellion", read the Butcher's Farce Emancipation Proclamation. I am not going to do you r research for you.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
It was adopted on December 6, 1865,
and was then declared in a proclamation of Secretary of State William H. Seward on December 18.
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04/10/2009 5:00:48 AM PDT
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central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: central_va
Look, I will debate somebody that really knows history, with you this is not the case. On April 9th, 1865 slavery was legal in "every state not currently in rebellion", read the Butcher's Farce Emancipation Proclamation. I am not going to do you r research for you.You are forgetting the states that had abolished slavery by state law or constitutional provision. California, for example, banned slavery in its Constitution of 1850. According to Wikipedia, only 15 states still permitted slavery as of the beginning of the Civil war.
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