(October 3, 2014 at 11:49 pm)Heywood Wrote: What outside country or actor forced the United States to end slavery? Sure there was a conflict to end slavery....but it was an internal conflict. From a certain perspective she is correct.
Yeah, Woodie. With your head up your ass as usual, that is the only "perspective" for someone to come to such an idiotic conclusion.
Quote:No, the timing of the emencipation was after the South had suffered the two defeats that decided its fate.
Lincoln decided on the Proclamation after Antietam in Sept. of 1862 but made it effective on Jan 1, 1863. Thus it was about 2 weeks after Fredericksburg which was a major disaster.
Antietam was, at best, a Pyrrhic victory. Fredericksburg was nearly a catastrophe. And then there was the Mud March. And then they followed that up with Chancellorsville. Finally, you get to Gettysburg.
