[Vision2020] Those Darn White Separatists? Who Are They?

[David Douglas]

Visionaries:


Tom Hansen asks:


	"And the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was . . . ?"



Answer:
	...to proclaim that "....all persons held as slaves within any State or
designated part of a State the people
	whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then,
thenceforward, and forever free;.."

--at least according to the Source Document as found here (
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html )
at a National Park Service website.  In other words it did not free all
slaves.  The same page goes on to comment regarding Lincoln's original
position:

	"Lincoln had been reluctant to come to this position [that the war was a
fight to bring about an end to slavery, from the previous paragraph--DDD].
	A believer in white supremacy, he initially viewed the war only in terms of
preserving the Union. "


Full document and commentary (to get the complete context of my extracted
quote, lest I did not do the context justice) can be found on the web page
above.


Regards,

David Douglas