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To: Krowbar who wrote (30079)	2/5/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

Lincoln was very timid on the Proclamation, since he limited it to areas that were in enemy possession. It freed not a single slave in Union occupied territories or unseceded states and was a war measure not a recovation of Dred Scott. I believe slavery was repealed in D.C. during the war, but it was the 13th Amendment (1865) that actually liberated American slaves, and the Civil Rights Act of 66 and 71 and the 14th (1868) and 15th (1871) that guaranteed some rights for African-American. To get these amendments accepted by suitable super-majorities, it was necessary to coerce the former Confederate States by excluding their representatives until they agreed to ratify the Civil War Amendments.