American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in Confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. However, while that may be true in a technical sense, the reality of actually freeing those slaves was far more complicated. This episode delves into the complexities and the real events that unfolded following the Emancipation Proclamation.
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