The year 1865 is incorrect for the Emancipation Proclamation.
“The year 1865 is incorrect for the Emancipation Proclamation. “
No it isn’t. It’s not when it was issued, no. But 1865 would have been the year when the 4 million figure I cited earlier was reached. It was also the year of the 13th amendment’s passage, and as such the last year in which the EP was significant.
But it is the time at which the number of slaves freed under the EP peaked.