[Ditto]

If the Confederacy had freed their slaves, the Union would still have been against secession.

ROTFLMAO. And if Hitler had only been a pacifist and Stalin had only been a humanitarian ....

[laotzu]

So, you can't fit the facts with your contention.

I know that I'm shocked....we are all shocked here.

[gatex]

[this is a quote] --- "Free in the Confederacy under the confiscation act and Emancipation Proclamation, the refugees found themselves imprisoned and sold as slaves in the Union state of Kentucky, where slavery remained legal until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment eight months after the war was over."

[source-- The Civil War - Illustrade History, by Geoffrey C. Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns, page 181]