longhaired freaky person
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I often hear apologists for White Supremacy say things like "slavery would have died out in the south" or "slavery was a dying institution". But the proclamation only freed slaves in Union-liberated areas of the south, not where the treasonous rebels still had control. If slavery was on the way out, why not then?
Here's an apologist now: "Lincoln didn't care about slavery". Why then did he free the slaves?
I smile when I think of what happened to John Wilkes Booth.
My point is that the areas in rebellion continued to practice slavery after the proclamation. Of course you are right to point that that slavery was the reason for the war.
Here's an apologist now: "Lincoln didn't care about slavery". Why then did he free the slaves?
I smile when I think of what happened to John Wilkes Booth.
My point is that the areas in rebellion continued to practice slavery after the proclamation. Of course you are right to point that that slavery was the reason for the war.