>>>Note that we had the Civil War and abolished slavery without these amendments.
The Civil War did not abolish slavery. Slavery was still legal in Maryland and Kentucky during the war. The Emancipation Proclamation only affected those areas under military control. It took the 13th Amendment to finally abolish slavery.
During the war?
I’m referencing after the war. Once the Civil War was over, Slavery wasn’t tolerated anywhere?
Am I wrong there?
It hasn’t been my position the war was started to end slavery. Lincoln thought up the Emancipation Proclamation at a time when he was having a very hard time continuing to pay for the war effort.
His proclamation on January 1st, 1863, seemed to do the trick, and funding was forthcoming once again.
Once the war was over, it was my understanding that slavery was no longer allowed.
If that’s not true, then I’ve thought of it wrong for a long long time.