Survival Arts

Quote of the day

It's important to note that Lincoln didn't free a single slave. They didn't tell you this in grade school, but the Emancipation Proclamation didn't apply to the northern states, where there were plenty of slaves. (Slaves were kept busy rebuilding the Capitol dome all throughout the war.) Nor did it apply to the border states; Lincoln exempted them because they might have been offended by it and joined the Rebellion. It only "applied" to those states Lincoln didn't control.

L. Neil Smith