Today, most people believe the lie that the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the North and South. In reality, it did anything but. Why should you blame the ill-informed citizens? After all public schools, North and South, currently spread the lie to students in US History classes that are usually taught in 4th, 7th, and 11th grades.
Let's look at the proclamation itself, "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;". Hold it right there Lincoln, this clearly states that slaves were apparently "freed" in the Confederate States of America, or as this document calls it "any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States". First, Lincoln had absolutely no jurisdiction in the Confederate States of America, which was a legal and independent country. Also, where it states "... or designated part of a State...", the proclamation only applied in designated areas of our Southern Nation that were under Confederate occupation. Slavery was still permitted in the United States as well as areas in the South under yankee occupation.
Now let's look at this quote, "....and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion..". Although, as previously stated, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves, Lincoln goes on to call the proclamation a "war measure".
Lincoln did not care to end slavery but to get votes from people of color. If Lincoln honestly wanted to abolish slavery, why not do it in 1861? Why wait until 1863 after the death of thousands of his own citizens and citizens of the Confederacy? He simply wanted votes from the free persons of color in the North along with his hopes of slave rebellions in the South.
Not one slave rebellion occurred during the War for Southern Independence.
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