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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Feb 16 00:10:56 2009, in response to Re: WSJ interview with Jeb Bush: GOP must be national party, moderate on immigration, push school ch, posted by trainsarefun on Sun Feb 15 23:34:56 2009. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was so legalistic sounding because he and his lawyers were somewhat unsure of his power, but the 13th amendment settled that (if not the means by which it was actually ratified)The Emancipation Proclamation consisted of two executive orders. Most blacks in the US simply didn't live - and couldn't live - where slavery was illegal, because per the Fugitive Slave Law, by the power of federal law, back to their masters they went even if they made it up north (except all the way out of the reach of US jurisdiction) The first law thereof (1793) was not as strong as the 1850 law; the 1850 law imposed a federal obligation on non-slave states to basically impose slavery on people within their borders, and also to rebel against that law; many states refused to enforce it. People like Harriet Tubman switched efforts towards smuggling slaves to Canada after the 1850 law. |
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