"The Emancipation Proclamation freed only slaves living in territory behind Confederate battle lines. Slaves in Union controlled border states like Maryland had to wait for the Thirteenth Amendment for their freedom. It was purely a political document intended to keep Britain and France from formally recognizing and allying with the Confederates. It put the conflict on a higher moral plane, since both Britain and France had abolished slavery.
Nevertheless, it was almost as unpopular in the North as it was in the South, especially in major cities like New York. The infamous NYC draft riots of July, 1863 were fueled by intense anger by Irish immigrants who were being drafted and dying in job lots now to free blacks who, after the war, would swarm into cities like New York and take THEIR jobs. (Which, ironically, is pretty much what happened!) The rioting was so widespread and severe that Lincoln had to divert Union troops fresh from the battlefield at Gettysburg to quell the violence."
The tendency of Britain and France was to ally with the South, because of slavery used in cotton production on which both relied. His account above of Lincoln freeing the slaves thus was seen by these powers as queering their main motive to intervene.
As the account above points out, with examples, Lincoln's dick move queered all white Americans both North and South, even more than it queered Britain and France, which would easily get over it.
America never got over it.
He screwed all Americans much more than he screwed the British, or the French.
That's why I call it: The Super Dick Move
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