Waco1947 said:
An easy way to learn watch these movies
Selma
Till
Seven Years a slave
The Chicago 7
Rustin
Harriett
Emancipation
I agree we should learn more about that...
The Emancipation proclamation basically freed Zero slaves....in the loyal Union slave holding States the slaves were not freed. And in slaves were only freed on paper in the areas that the Union did not have control over.
[after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states.
The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control.
William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free." Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the Union]
Lincoln even wrote the proclamation to exempt areas of Tennessee and Louisiana currently under Union occputaion...so no slaves would be freed there either!
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It exempted Tennessee and portions of Virginia and Louisiana that were occupied by the Union and left slavery untouched in the border states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri.]
