When you state it that way you leave 99% of the truth unspoken. In reality slavery had either been abolished in every northern state by 1804 or the process of eventual abolition had been defined. This was done independently by each state. They didn’t have to have the weight of the federal government force a solution upon them. They did it of their own accord because it was the right thing to do.
The Emancipation Proclamation did free slaves in states that were in open rebellion. It is true that slavery was prohibited federally by virtue of the Thirteenth Amendment.
I'm glad you said "ended slavery," not "freed the slaves." The dirty little secret of emancipation in the northern states is that it resulted in very few actual slaves being freed.
The states invariably had a considerable grace period before the law went into effect. So the slaveowners just sold their slaves south, resulting in a precipitate drop in the black population by the next census. And almost certainly inevitable instances of families being split up, etc.
It is true that slavery was prohibited federally by virtue of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Slavery was ended by state action in every Union state except KY before the end of the war. The 50,000 or so slaves in that state were the only ones freed by the 13th Amendment.
Wrong. When i say it that way i expose 100% of the truth that the union holds NO moral high ground on the issue of slavery. Thank you.