[Tzfat]

It freed no one. Lincoln apologists can never answer why Lincoln did not free the slaves in all the states... Just like you can’t answer it.

[DoodleDawg]

Lincoln apologists can never answer why Lincoln did not free the slaves in all the states...

Because it took a constitutional amendment to end slavery, which Lincoln helped get through Congress and to the states for ratification before he was murdered.

[rockrr]

Lincoln “apologists” (and the rest of us too!) answer that question all the time. The answer is exceedingly simple - because he didn’t have the authority to unilaterally do so. He knew that it would take an amendment to the constitution to free all of the slaves.

See how easy that was?!

[jmacusa]

Slavery ended in the North by the early 1800s. He freed those slaves in the states in rebellion against the Union. The 13th. Amendment in 1865 ended slavery altogether. What you can't answer, and won't is the reason why the South went to war— to preserve ans expand slavery. It started a war to do so and lost. Are you defending slavery here?