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To: Tublecane

Just wondering then, did the Emancipation Proclamation free any slaves?


101 posted on 01/19/2011 1:42:30 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
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To: ReverendJames

“Just wondering then, did the Emancipation Proclamation free any slaves?”

Not sure why you’re asking, but yes, it did. About 4 million of them. Not in the border states, nor in the parts of Virginia that were turning into a border state. But in the rest of the Confederacy, yes.


116 posted on 01/19/2011 2:53:48 PM PST by Tublecane
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