[southernsunshine]

You are aware, aren't you, that the Emancipation Proclamation was nearly a year before the Gettysburg Address, aren't you?

I am. I'm also aware that it was a war measure which didn't free any slaves.

Do you disagree that ending slavery was the right thing to do?

You didn't answer my question: Freedom for whom?

[Tublecane]

“I am. I’m also aware that it was a war measure which didn’t free any slaves.”

It freed about 4 million slaves, silly.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I'm also aware that it was a war measure which didn't free any slaves.

You're wrong. About 20,000, in US controlled areas of North Carolina and on the Sea Islands of South Carolina were immediately affected. And of course as the war went on, millions more were freed under its terms.

You didn't answer my question: Freedom for whom?

Everyone, including slaves. What's your point?