> Please expand on that. If you don't even know this, why are you making comments here as if you know what you are talking about? "Even though it excluded are

> Please expand on that. If you don't even know this, why are you making comments here as if you know what you are talking about? "Even though it excluded areas not in rebellion, it still applied to more than 3.5 million of the 4 million slaves in the country." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation There were about 500,000 slaves in the north/union when the civil war started. They were outright slaves or were classified as "apprentices for life". For example, in New Jersey there were still eighteen enslaved people in 1860, although officially termed “apprentices for life.” https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-north-and-slavery/ https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-north-and-slav... I'm done here. Can't be bothered educating someone who refuses look up basic facts. But then again you believe china is a "free market". Ignorance is bliss.