Re: Did you know you can buy land on the moon?

Henry Spencer wrote:

> (* Was it 1865 exactly?  The Emancipation Proclamation became
> effective throughout the South in 1865, but there were a
> couple of Northern states which still had slavery, and the
> E.P. didn't affect them.  I'm not sure if they formally
> abolished it before the Constitutional amendment, which I 
> think was a few years after the end of the war.) 

Close. The Emancipation Proclamation (1/1/1863) freed all slaves in  
parts of the US under Confederate control. (This led to caustic 
European commentary to the effect that the issue wasn't whether one 
man could own another, it was whether that man was loyal to the 
United States.) The 13th Amendment (proposed 1/31/1865, ratified 
12/6/1865) outlawed slvery entirely.

Jim Davis