Exactly. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't "free the slaves." It seized enemy contraband (property) including slaves. This is the actual language of the proclamation too. People are fucking retarded, and the victors wrote the history books as usual. Lincoln was actually responsible for killing as many as 1 million former slaves by depriving them of their property, as Union soldiers took over plantations and ran everyone, slaves included, off to fend for themselves. Hundreds of thousands froze, starved to death, or died of disease. Wow Lincoln was A SAINT!