I wonder what they are going to do with all of that unsold merchandise? Maybe donate it to charities in non-English speaking countries.
The only slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation were those behind Confederate lines. In Union held territory they were still slaves; in fact, the Union Army would return runaway slave to their masters! Many abolitionists, in both America and England, saw the Emancipation Proclamation as merely an attempt to disrupt Southern agriculture and industry. Slavery wasn't abolished until passage of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865! Today the Emancipation Proclamation would be called an Executive Order!