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re: Abraham Lincoln radically changed the nature of the Civil War on this day 161 years ago
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:56 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:56 pm to RollTide1987
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He did. Ever heard of the Thirteenth Amendment?
A whopping 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Sounds more like political pandering than anything.
President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective on January 1, 1863, declared that the enslaved in Confederate-controlled areas were free.
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The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
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Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:06 pm to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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A whopping 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Sounds more like political pandering than anything.
No.
It's because he understood that post-war the Courts would absolutely destroy his Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln himself even said that it was a war measure. He understood how fickle people were and that once the war was over, the Northern populace wouldn't care as much if slavery survived or died. He needed the Thirteenth Amendment passed and sent off to the states for ratification while the war was still going on. Otherwise, there was no guarantee that the practice would be finished in the United States forever.
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