History doesn't support your contention that the Emancipation Proclamation freed four million slaves, therefore, it's revision. Unrevised history tells us is the 13th Amendment freed the slaves.
“Unrevised history tells us is the 13th Amendment freed the slaves.”
What happened between April and December of 1865? Were all the slaves who fell under the EP (some 4 million) returned to their masters? Is it your position that they would have been had there been no 13th amendment? Please, think it through. Your position is preposterous.
“History doesn’t support your contention that the Emancipation Proclamation freed four million slaves”
If by “history” you mean “Erroneous But Effectively Unbalancing Talking Points By Which To Confuse Yankees,” 146th edition, by John Q. Lostcause, then yes.
The risk we take when trying to reduce a complex issue down into sound-bytes is inaccurately conveying the essence of the truth.
We know (or should know) that the Emancipation Proclamation was not intended to emancipate all blacks everywhere. I won’t insult your intelligence by asking if you’ve actually read the proclamation, but a quick review would show us that the Proclamation was rather precise in describing the specific affected areas. The area in question comprised of the states in rebellion.
The symbolic and effective consequence of this proclamation was the immediate freeing of some 55,000 slaves and more as the union troops encountered them. The net effect was that remaining slaves virtually everywhere in America were freed.
The task of complete emancipation of blacks nationwide was undertaken and achieved through the 13th Amendment.
There is no revisionism at play here. Why persist in such nit-pickery?