My gosh you are stupid. What does federal troops in the south attempting to free slaves have to do with freeing slaves in the US?
Maryland and Missouri freed slaves? I said that the US never freed slaves in the north.
What the heck is a Corbin?
A very ineffective and really idiotic argument by you.
My gosh you are stupid.
Captain Jack Aubrey: "What does federal troops in the south attempting to free slaves have to do with freeing slaves in the US?"
Of the nation's four million slaves, about 90% were in Confederate states.
That's where laws like "contraband of war" applied.
Captain Jack Aubrey: "What the heck is a Corbin?"
Corwin
Captain Jack Aubrey: "A very ineffective and really idiotic argument by you."
A very ineffective and really idiotic argument by you.
Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia all freed their slaves before the war's end.
In Delaware there were very few slaves to begin with and in Kentucky very few left by the time the 13th Amendment's ratification freed them in December 1865.
Of the nation's four million slaves in 1860, only a few thousand remained as slaves to be freed by ratification of the 13th Amendment in December 1865.
And your problem with this is what, exactly?