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Re: Slavery in the North
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"the EP did not free any slave since Lincoln did not have that authority"

That is true, since a Presidental edicts can not abolish Constitutional or federal law. Lincoln made this edict to be able to enforce an Anti-slave treaty with England to keep England out of the war.
Lincoln had no authority to end slavery in his country. Nor did he have the power to end slavery in another country.

He only had the power to declare that Contribands siezed as spoils of war were free. As such they had no value and were abused terribly. Because of that abuse and negelect a greater per cap ratio of blacks in Contriband camp along the lower Mississippi valley died that Union soldiers at Andersonville.

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