re: Sunny Hostin is now claiming that President Abraham Lincoln didn't emancipate the slaves.

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She's actually more right than wrong. Lincoln only freed the slaves in states in open rebellion. You were just as enslaved if you were a slave in say Kentucky or Maryland.

As far as slaves freeing themselves it's also true tens of thousands of not hundreds of thousands escaped into northern states as the war progressed.

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They slaves were only as free as the law and society allowed them to be.


Same with women’s voting rights.