[Ditto]

And emancipation! You have already emancipated nearly two millions of our slaves...

I thought it was an article of dogma in the Neo-Confederate (and Socialist) religion that the Emancipapion Proclamation never freed one slave and here we have Jeff Davis saying 2 million were freed even before Sherman made his march through Georgia and the Carolinas?

What the hell gives? Was Davis part of the Lincoln cult or was he just educated in government schools?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Federal occupation of much of Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and coastal South Carolina emancipated the slaves to which President Davis refers.

[Aurelius]

As you know very well the emancipation that Jefferson referred to had nothing to do with Lincoln's phony Emancipation Proclamation.

[dpa5923]

When written and published the Emancipation Proclimation freed no slaves. It was specifically said: That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;

As the federal government had no authority in the states currently in rebellion no slaves were freed. But as the Union armies marched south and occupied areas of the south, slaves were indeed freed. As this interview was conducted in September of 1864, Unions armies had by this time moved deeply into southern territory and freed numerous slaves.