Thank you for that enlightining commontary. I have often thought that 600,000 lives were lost in preserving an empire. If the proclamation or the amendment were enacted before the war, it might have been a noble cause.
Although as a number many individual slaves were far better off after the war, I suspect that within 10 years after the war, the former slaves were, as a whole, no better off than before.
Mike Curtis
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