While discussing my book, The Curtain Torn, with the host of the Jellyvision show recently, he made a statement that has come up many times before. He asked how was it possible that Robert Carter III freed more slaves than Abraham Lincoln? That fact is that Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves. The Proclamation was actually directed only at the states that were in rebellion in which Lincoln had no legal authority. So I stand by my statement that Robert Carter III freed more slaves than anyone in American history