Posted on 06/11/2021 10:18:34 AM PDT by lightman
Great idea, Mouton.
After all, we are told that the best way to honor Martin Luther King is to do service work on the MLK Day federal holiday.
Several states did ‘rolling’ emancipations, those born after a certain date wold be free on the 21st birthday. Massachusetts slaves won their freedom by lawsuit. A slave sued for her freedom quoting the phrase “all men are created equal”. I don’t know if she cited the MA state constitution or the U.S. Declaration, but it worked.
As I said it was a POLITICAL document. It kept Europe out of the war, and they very much moving to involvement and doing so on the side of the south....
Once the EC was signed European involvement became impossible
As I said it was a POLITICAL document. It kept Europe out of the war,
Lincoln’s portion was complex and sometimes contradictory. He held the southern states had no Constitutional right to leave the Union and therefore hadn’t. War was never declared because that would imply that the C.S.A. was in fact a nation. Yet when the war ended, Lincoln put conditions (much lighter than what came to be after he died) on states being readmitted.
But by the E.C. making the war about ending slavery rather than preserving the Union, the E.C. did keep Europe from getting involved or even recognizing C.S.A. independence.
Another day off for state employees
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