Real Edd Benson W5EBO (@realeddbenson)

June "teenth" is BULLSHIT! No slaves were released in the Yankee states, or 49 counties in Virginia, or in New Orleans and 12 surrounding parishes.... "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued." https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html