"N2EY" wrote:

When? Check a map of 1860. There were 19 slave states,
of which 4 stayed in the Union. Delaware was a slave state
but it did not secede.


Depends on the definition of a slave state, I guess. There were 18 Union
States and 11 Confederate States. The three border states did not side with
either and four of the slave states stayed in the Union. Even if you believe
the three border states, and all of the Union States (including the four
slave states), would have voted to end slavery, the Union did not have
enough numbers to abolish slavery in 1860 had the South not seceded-
remember, it takes 2/3rds of the Congress to pass an amendment. Since
slavery was not threatened had the South remained in the Union, slavery
obviously did not cause them to secede. In other words, the Civil War was
not about slavery until the Union (then and now) decided to make it so.
Whatever, it is certainly not what the South fought for.


The Emancipation Proclamation was written in 1863. It legally
freed most (but not all) of the slaves.


It freed only the slave in states "now in rebellion against the United
States" and listed the specific states. It did not apply to slaves in any
state that was not part of the Confederacy (it did not apply to slaves in
the Union States). The 13th amendment, passed after the war, ended slavery
throughout the United States. Read how the 13th amendment was passed by
Congress and later ratified.


Which states were they? Slavery was abolished in
the North by 1804. In many northern states it was
abolished before the Constitution was written.


So that makes their accountability less? In essence, you're arguing that
the Northern states are somehow better only because slavery ended there
before it ended in the South.


Here's what I learned about the War Between the States:


Fine. Since there are other messages to respond to, I'll ignore the
remaining nine paragraphs.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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