You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

0
3

[–] gimpyoldman 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

That's if you count from the time of Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation to the end of the Civil War. Everybody seems to forget that the Emancipation Proc. only freed the slaves in the "states under rebellion". Slavery in all the US didn't end until the 13th Amendment was passed in August 1866.