No, other way round.
It was to free the slaves in the rebel states.
The slave-states that had remained loyal were allowed to practise slavery for the time being, to discourage them from joining the Confederacy.
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
Slaves in states rebelling against the United States were free
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was a document which symbolically freed slaves in the United States.
The emancipation proclamation freed slaves in all states except for the borderline slave states that remained in the union. The proclamation had led the way to abolish slavery in the United States.
states in rebellion against the United States. all rebelling states
states in rebellion against the United States. all rebelling states
States still in rebellion against the United States.
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Correct, because at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, there were no slaves in any of the Union's territories or states. However, when the Confederacy lost the Civil War and was thus re-united with the U.S.A., those states had to free their slaves.
No the emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves immediately. instead it freed very few people because the emancipation proclamation did not apply to slaves in the border states who were fighting for the union states. it also did not act upon the slaves in the south that were already under union control.
In the United States, slaves were freed in 1863. This occurred when President Abraham Lincoln issued what is known as the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with nearly all the rest freed as Union armies advanced. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners; it did not make the ex-slaves, called Freedmen, citizens.For more information visit the Related Link.