Mary Beth posted this information in one of her comments.

From President-Elect Obama’s website:

Didn’t President Lincoln free the slaves?

I wonder if the community organizer missed that memo.

Furthermore, I wonder if the Constitutional scholar knows that the Constitution was amended to prohibit involuntary servitude.

Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.