Obama aid thinks that slavery was ended by Congress. How was it really ended and by whom?

Probably ... but then again .. is Obama really against slavery?

" Do Welfare Programs Constitute Modern Slavery?"

"You know, if you were a slave in the old South, what did you get as a slave? You got free room and board, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having children because that was just, you know, tomorrow's slave ...

Can I ask a question? How's that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get free food, and you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. There is a difference: The slave had to work for it."

It's the dependency factor that joins them at the hip. Slaves were entirely dependent on their white masters for everything. The same holds true with welfare, people become dependent on government to provide for their everyday needs. In effect government becomes their master !

Well, he's right and you're wrong.

The Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in states under revolt. It was still legal in Maryland for example.

It took the 13th Amendment to outlaw slavery, which was passed in both the House and Senate.

Edit:

Read that again.

"It proclaimed all slaves in Confederate territory to be forever free"

There were slave states still in the Union. They weren't freed. The proclamation only reallyfurthered the war effort and was arguably illegal on top of that.

That was a long time ago, and no one alive today is affiliated.

Let's talk about the Battle of the Bulge (1944) where an African American artillery battalion the 333 rd in support of the 106 th Division were overrun in the first hours of the attack. 11 escaped initial capture, and hid with a local family. They were caught by the Germans and marched away.

Their bodies were later found with their jaws broken in by rifle butts, fingers cut off, and stabbed through the eye with bayonets.

Less than a week later around 90 American POW's were machine-gunned near Malmedy, and in Stavelot over 90 Belgian civilians were executed, including 23 children.

How come he's not mad at the Germans?

I'm sure picking cotton for room & board (150 years ago) was so much worse.

You're incorrect - slavery was officially ended by the 13th Amendment.

The Emancipation Proclamation did not officialize anything, and as long as certain areas of the South were not liberated by Union forces, then slavery continued despite the Emancipation Proclamation.

Also, politics back then were different. The Republican Party was the more Liberal party back then.

Please learn to think.

No, Lincoln did not end slavery alone. He did realize that he needed to pass an anti-slavery amendment to the constitution before the end of the civil war because after the war ended, the southern states would not vote for an anti-slavery amendment after they return to the Union. Presidents cannot enact a constitutional amendment by executive order. Congress and the states have to vote to approve a constitutional amendment. So, sorry to say, you are wrong.

The 13th Amendment was absolutely required to end slavery. Otherwise, why did Congress struggle over the amendment? Go see the movie.

Congress passed the amendment which abolished slavery.

Slavery was a long time ago. Can't we just serve our corporate and governmental masters well and maybe win the lottery so we can live in the Big House?

Liberals passed the civil rights act.

Slavery was ended by the slaves themselves if you look at it. Many slaves had began to escape slavery well before the point that it became abolished. It wasn't up until slave owners petitioned to force all escaped slaves to be returned that congress stepped in