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To: Vlad The Inhaler
Vlad The Inhaler on Union slaves: "DELAWARE - 1,798 KENTUCKY - 225,483 MARYLAND - 87,189 MISSOURI - 114,931 NEBRASKA - 15 "

First we should note Confederates claimed Kentucky & Missouri and sent armies of conquest to hold them.
They also invaded Maryland, hoping to flip it from Union to Confederate.

Second, those were all Southern slave states except Nebraska, which was a territory, not a state.

Northern free-States had all gradually abolished slavery by 1860 and only a handful remained in one Northern state, New Jersey.
In the mean time Northern freed-blacks increased to over 200,000 by 1860.

127 posted on 11/02/2017 6:28:59 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
First we should note Confederates claimed Kentucky & Missouri and sent armies of conquest to hold them.
They also invaded Maryland, hoping to flip it from Union to Confederate.
Second, those were all Southern slave states except Nebraska, which was a territory, not a state.

As Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said:

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”

In this case you have your facts wrong.

There is no disagreement among scholars or documented history on the fact that there were only 11 states in the Confederacy and Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland are not among them.

The eleven Confederate states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were known as Border States.

Once West Virginia separated from Virginia it too was considered to be a Border State.

Border States remained loyal to the Union but state citizens generally had divided loyalties.


144 posted on 11/02/2017 1:12:01 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but exempt themselves.)
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