Comments on: Emancipation Proclamation https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523561 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:07:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523561 Oh, and it is worth pointing out that this is normal. When people look at the health care reform bill or some other such thing today and yell at Obama for not just fixing the damn problem in one fell swoop like promised, and like they did in the old days (like, for instance, the emancipation proclamation freeing the slaves and all) they are comparing a made up version of history to a real present day.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523560 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:05:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523560 Stephen Moore, that is correct as I understand it. And (there were more parts of this document to be issued over several months) it got right down to counties THe counties of Virginia that were to form W. Virginia, slave free, were exempted. Most of Tennessee, parts of La, etc. were already in Union hands so they were exempted.

Abolition came wiht the 13th amendment adopted at the end of 1865.

]]> By: Stephen Moore https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523559 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:39:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523559 So, if I am understanding the wording of the Proclamation correctly, did this mean that those slaves in States or parts of States that were not in rebellion remained in their position of slavery?

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523558 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:24:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523558 Six of my sixteen great great grandparents were freed by the proclamation. The rest were either never slaves or freed before the start of the Civil War. I have ancestors who fought on both sides of the conflict. And yes Bill, I still run into Southerners who are still fighting the war, and mourning their gentile antebellum times, which in truth were experienced on the backs of the slaves, and ‘enjoyed’ by very few. It appalls me that we can still have a movie about the Civil War (Cold Mountain) and leave slaves completely out as if slavery had nothing to do with it.

]]> By: Sideshow Bill https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523557 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:22:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/22/emancipation-proclamation/#comment-523557 And southern conservatives have been pissed ever since!

Abraham Lincoln FTW!!! (although he didn’t free all states and areas)

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