WE ONLY THINK WE KNOW

 Take what we are celebrating today:

We only think it freed all the slaves.

As Galadriel says  of Sauron's gift of the Rings of Power

"But they were,all of them, deceived."

To paraphrase Fallout -- Politics, like war, never changes.

PresidentAbraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 did not free all enslavedpeople in the United States. 

The proclamation only freed slaves in states thathad seceded from the Union, giving the South 100 days to end their rebellion. 

If the South complied, slavery could continue, but if they kept fighting, theirslaves would be freed and could be drafted into the Union army. 

Theproclamation also exempted the Border States, as well as Tennessee and areas ofLouisiana and Virginia occupied by Federal troops.

Lincoln'sprimary motivation for the proclamation was to win the Civil War and reunitethe Republic. 

He also didn't want to antagonize the slave states loyal to theUnion by setting their slaves free.

What do you think? 

Hobbes is getting a headache trying to figure it out.