The Day No Slaves Were Freed

By Bill Day on September 22, 2004 11:10 PM | | Comments (0)

Today is the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Whatever its moral impact, the Proclamation did not as a practical matter free any slaves, since its provisions applied only the States then in rebellion against the United States. Slave states on the side of the Union (e.g. Maryland) were exempted.

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