I don't hold this against him. I didn't know about it either. I knew that the Emancipation Proclamation didn't physically free the slaves since they were still under Confederate control at the time, and that they were freed later when Union soldiers began liberating the plantations, but I didn't know they had a specific day commemorating this.
I don't hold this against him. I didn't know about it either. I knew that the Emancipation Proclamation didn't physically free the slaves since they were still under Confederate control at the time, and that they were freed later when Union soldiers began liberating the plantations, but I didn't know they had a specific day commemorating this.