06-19-2016, 04:14 AM
(06-19-2016, 02:09 AM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Which is why slaves were kept for another century after those documents.
Equal rights my ass.
The aim was to free the slaves but to hold the union together they caved. The south was so slave dependent for their economy.
They knew they wouldn't have made it without the south so had to compromise.