Actually not at all. The emancipation proclamation act of 1863 ONLY freed the slaves in Southern states. The North still had slaves during the war. The Emancipation Proclamation was a "war measure," as Lincoln put it. Foreign correspondents covering the war recognized it as a brilliant propaganda coup. Emancipation would take place only in rebel states not under Union control, their state sovereignty in the matter of slavery arguably forfeited as a result of their having seceded from the Union. The president could not abolish slavery; if not done at the state level, abolition would require a constitutional amendment. Slaveholders and their slaves in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee, and parts of Virginia and Louisiana occupied by Union troops were exempt from the edict. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/miller1.html And of course, war began well before the emancipation proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln 'wanted to deport slaves' Abraham Lincoln wanted to ship freed black slaves away from the US to British colonies in the Caribbean even in the final months of his life, it has emerged. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-wanted-to-deport-slaves-to-new-colonies.html
Oh and of course, NYC had the 2nd highest rate of slave ownership per capita. NYC was in the Union, btw.
Thursday, December 02, 2010 Why The Civil War Was Not About Slavery By Donald W. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-civil-war-was-not-about-slavery.html
Slavery existed for thousands of years and people never fixed it on moral grounds. At the heart of the issue was money. I'm willing to bet that there were strong industrial interests just dying to get to the black populations of the south. That was their market segment. For some reason slavery blocked their profits. In war morality is the excuse not the cause. Why is it that the winner is always morally justified and never the loser?
On the contrary, many of the first Union recruits came from the Republican paramilitary organization known as the "Wide Awakes" Here is one of their songs: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/wideawak.html " O, what is all this noise about, This midnight confusion? 'Tis the wide - awakes have all turned out, and made this grand intrusion. Chorus Our cause is Abolition, and for the nigger we do cry; For we do love the nigger, and we'll love him till we die! And here we are with torch in hand, We want to cut the figure; For we proclaim, throughout the land, That we all love the nigger. We call ourselves the wide - awakes, And vote for the rail - splitter, Because we think the nigger makes Our glorious cause the better. 'Tis honest Abe and Hamlin We want to rule our nation; And for the nigger we do claim Equality of station. The poor white man we wish to take The place of Mr. Nigger, And for this cause we're wide - awake, And ready to pull the trigger. For this we march with the torch - light, To show our holy mission: And worship nigger with delight, And pray for abolition. Then let our noble cause prevail Through every land and nation, Till none will dare our will assail, But shout Amalgamation " http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2669:1.lincoln.1440.1447
Funny then, how they didn't free them in their own states in the Emancipation Proclamation, that was only for the ones in the South. Funny then, how Lincoln planned to ship them all back to Africa, or out to the islands after they were freed. Even months before his death his writings describe plans as to how they could be deported. Case in point, the Civil War was no more about slavery than the Iraq war was about "freedom for the Iraqis". The main interest Lincoln had in the slaves, was getting them out of America.
No, the war was about killing people like you. He did it out of pure joy. You might ask, what's my evidence for this?
Simple answer re. Lincoln's EP: It was illegal to free them in the remaing USA states. Remember, the Constitution remained in effect, including Article 4: "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. (No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.) (This clause in parentheses is superseded by the 13th Amendment.) " It took an amendment to free the slaves in the States. Lincoln's EP had no legal bearing in the nation of the CSA; it was political. Seneca