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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Virgina had the Supreme Court rule to stop producing Conferderate plates. Interesting notes in this article is Texas never even wanted this plates and Maryland produces them but was never part of the Confederate.
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8833279...-supreme-court
Texas thought it was racist along . Mind blowing. |
It nearly was. Because the capital of the union was in Maryland, Lincoln had to overstep his authority as president to keep Maryland and Baltimore from succeeding from the Union. That is why Washington became the District of Columbia. Maryland was also a slave state (Delaware as well) until November 1, of 1864 when slavery was abolished under the new state constitution. Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but that only declared slaves in the states of the Confederacy to be free.
John Wilkes Booth was also from Maryland.