[jeffersondem]

“President Lincoln freed the slaves in this country and was killed for it.”

President Lincoln freed the slaves in what was called the Confederate States of America.

Sometime later, after Lincoln’s death, slaves all over the United States were freed.

[ChronicMA]

Sometime later, after Lincoln’s death, slaves all over the United States were freed.
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in fairness to Lincoln, the federal part of passing the 13th amendment was completed in his first term, prior to his second inaugural and assassination. A president has little control over the speed of dozens of state legislatures, yet they did get it passed in 1865 the year of Lincoln's death.