[Tublecane]

“Your claim that the Emancipation Proclamation freed four million slaves is historical revision. Period”

If it’s revisionist, then it was a revision of a revision, because that’s the way it was, and nothing but the fog of ideology could have made it any other way.

[southernsunshine]

If it’s revisionist, then it was a revision of a revision, because that’s the way it was, and nothing but the fog of ideology could have made it any other way.

You're both behind. Even .gov recognizes at this point that the Emancipation Proclamation didn't free the slaves.

[phi11yguy19]

But 1865 would have been the year when the 4 million figure I cited earlier was reached.

But alas, if the intent was the freedom of all slaves, it would've applied to them. Nothing revisionist about reading the man's own words. The "Great Emancipator" was totally cool with slaves in the areas he still controlled.