Emancipation Proclamation: These 4 States eventually ABOLISHED Slavery in their OWN Constitution.

[00:00:08]Hello, beloved, to all of you who responded so swiftly to the two videos >> [music] >> I published earlier this morning on June 10th. Thank you so much. I appreciate your comments and your engagement and [music] your interest in history. For those of you who are saying, "What about Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, and Delaware? What about that?" And I thought about that, too, because I live in Maryland.

[00:00:33]But let me just share with you that each one of those states did eventually abolish [music] slavery by the Constitution in their own [music] state. So, in Maryland, it was 1864, Missouri 1865, [music] Kentucky and Delaware 1865.

[00:00:55]So, yeah.

[00:00:56]We've been free. Don't worry about it.

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[00:01:08]>> [music] >> But it is important to know that the historical record is sometimes overlooked. And so, I wanted [music] to point these things out. Okay?

[00:01:20]So, the Emancipation [music] Proclamation of 1863, it's great in that [music] it did free some of the enslaved people, but I just wanted to be historically correct [music] on the process.

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