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Originally Posted by acrylix
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Lincoln didn't give a shit about a slave.
The emancipation proclamation
only freed slaves in the rebelling states and each was
promised that they could keep slavery if they returned to the union.
That MoFo had no choice but to end slavery because no rebelling state complied
and rejoined to the union.
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The Proclamation applied in only ten states that were still in rebellion in 1863, and thus did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slave-holding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware) which were Union states ? those slaves were freed by separate state and federal actions. The state of Tennessee had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted. Virginia was named, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties then in the process of forming the new state of West Virginia, and seven additional counties and two cities in the Union-controlled Tidewater region.[5] Also specifically exempted were New Orleans and 13 named parishes of Louisiana, all of which were also already mostly under Federal control at the time of the Proclamation. These exemptions left unemancipated an additional 300,000 slaves.[6]
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required individuals to return runaway slaves to their owners. During the war, Union generals such as Benjamin Butler declared that slaves in occupied areas were contraband of war and accordingly refused to return them.[22] ... ... ...
Some generals also declared the slaves under their jurisdiction to be free and were replaced when they refused to rescind such declarations.
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