Originally Posted by
dmurray6
You mean, it became a northern war goal military tactic against the south, right? Because those two ideas are VERY different things.
The emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in a country in which Lincoln did not preside over. Do you not find it rather amusing that a President who is credited with freeing slaves, and breaking down the institution of slavery didn't actually free the slaves in the only country in which he ran? It's presented quite nicely by the example below also, that slaves were freed in the south, but not in southern areas that the Union had already gained control. I have a feeling that if Lincoln were from a southern state, he too would have defended the south, he was certainly no fore-thinker, when it came to slavery. To some extent, I feel a lot of people confuse or mix racism with slavery. Racism certainly exists without slavery and vice versa, hence the slavery that took place in earlier times. For example, the revolt that Spartacus led was against the Roman Empire, no race association with that slavery. People need to realize that the "Great" Abraham Lincoln was not so great a person. He wasn't an abolitionist, he didn't believe that blacks should have the same rights as whites, and he thought colonization could resolve the issue of slavery (colonization meant he wanted to send them to Liberia, the African state founded by the American Colonization Society in 1821....oh how dear of him, that great man.....(sarcasm)).
From the article "5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation"....
"Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didn’t apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union. Lincoln also exempted selected areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control in hopes of gaining the loyalty of whites in those states. In practice, then, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t immediately free a single slave, as the only places it applied were places where the federal government had no control—the Southern states currently fighting against the Union."