States still in rebellion against the United States.
No. The Emancipation Proclamation, written by Abraham Lincoln, declared all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states free. This did no good because the confederate states were not in Lincoln's control at the time. This document said nothing about the UNION slaves, though. A couple of the states fighting on Lincoln's side still had slaves, and the emancipation proclamation did not set them free.
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 10 states that were still in rebellion in 1863. It did not, however, take into account slaves that were in bordering Union states. These remaining slaves were freed on the state and federal level.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all of the rebel states, but it failed to set the slaves free in the 4 "border states." (Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri)
Slaves in the rebelling states
No. The Emancipation Proclamation, written by Abraham Lincoln, declared all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states free. This did no good because the confederate states were not in Lincoln's control at the time. This document said nothing about the UNION slaves, though. A couple of the states fighting on Lincoln's side still had slaves, and the emancipation proclamation did not set them free.
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 10 states that were still in rebellion in 1863. It did not, however, take into account slaves that were in bordering Union states. These remaining slaves were freed on the state and federal level.
Emancipation proclamation
It declared all slaves free in the United States after the civil war it was signed September 1862
The ones in the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal to the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border states.
To free the slaves in the states in rebellion.
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to prevent foreign recognition of the Confederate States of America. As Lincoln had no power to free slaves in the Confederate States, the document did not free any slaves and exempted slaves in loyal Union states and in those areas of the South occupied by Federal troops.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all of the rebel states, but it failed to set the slaves free in the 4 "border states." (Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri)
Only the slaves that were in the Southern rebellion states.
Slaves were freed on December 18, 1865, after the civil war. The 13th amendment freed them.