>You're conflating black emancipation with black equality, >Because there was a civil war going on, and as a practical fact he had to keep border states like Ma

>You're conflating black emancipation with black equality, >Because there was a civil war going on, and as a practical fact he had to keep border states like Maryland and Kentucky from being dragged out of the union if he wanted to win it. You're proving my point. The aim of the war was not for black equality.