GMcGath on Nostr: January 1: Anniversary of the 1863 #EmancipationProclamation. While the proclamation ...
January 1: Anniversary of the 1863 #EmancipationProclamation.
While the proclamation was important, we should remember its immediate significance was only symbolic. It didn't cause the immediate freeing of any slaves. What it did was to make the war against the Confederacy a war against #slavery. Before that it was only a war against secession.
While the proclamation was important, we should remember its immediate significance was only symbolic. It didn't cause the immediate freeing of any slaves. What it did was to make the war against the Confederacy a war against #slavery. Before that it was only a war against secession.