Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, proclaims emancipation of slaves with the object of preventing Confederate independence.
NOTE: In addition to keeping the Republic of France and the United Kingdom out of the War of Federal Aggression, Lincoln was seizing the initiative on slavery away from Congress, which had passed the Confiscation Act. The more radical congressional act freed slaves that could escape to compulsory Union lines; whereas the more conservative Emancipation Proclamation returned fugitive slaves to their owners.
[restored 4/3/2022]
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“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
CHRONOLOGY: Who banned slavery when? | Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSEIC16869120070321
Livingston – A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy
mises.org/library/moral-accounting-union-and-confederacy
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