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To: central_va
Lincoln emancipates the slaves, then there are draft riots, then there comes the conscription act.

Draft riots before the conscription act? How's that work?

58 posted on 04/25/2011 10:29:26 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
Draft riots before the conscription act? How's that work?

You are right, I got the order wrong, still the same result. I just checked it out, Emancipation was January, Enrollment act was March and the riots were in July. Still nobody was going to volunteer to free the slaves, it was a deeply racist country then.

65 posted on 04/25/2011 10:37:50 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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