the Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves on American soil immediately
Was your history education that poor?
*in the slave states
Good to see this forum is as pedantic as ever. My point is that the Emancipation Proclamation is an example of a piece of policy that had a more-or-less instantaneous effect and one which would have no direct carry-over into any subsequent administration.
2,000-5,000 slaves in occupied territories were immediately freed, and more than 3 million slaves were eventually freed by the Proclamation. To say the Proclamation did nothing is simply ignorant to history.
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