They were still in slavery :).
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective from January 1863, which declared all Southern slaves to be free.
President Lincoln wrote and issues the Emancipation Proclamation, which was a set of two executive orders. The second portion or second executive order found in the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in those Southern States, which had not returned to the Union by January 1, 1863. So slaves were "technically" freed in the Southern States, still in rebellion from the Union, as of January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation did not address the status of slaves in Missouri, or the border states, thus slavery was still legal in these areas until the 13th Amendment was passed and ratified by 3/4s of all of the states. This occurred on December 6,1865.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in states that were in rebellion against the Union. The proclamation was issued in the Fall of 1862 and took effect on January 1, 1863.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st 1863 (Union), it freed all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states not the Union slave states.
January 1st, 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863. It only freed all slaves in the states that had seceded and formed the Confederacy. In all, it was about 3 million slaves.
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate states.
The Emancipation Proclamation essentially freed all the American slaves. It was signed on January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective from January 1863, which declared all Southern slaves to be free.
The freeing of slaves was called emancipation. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation effective 1 January 1863. It proclaimed emancipation (freedom) for all slaves from states then at war with the Union.
as a result of the emancipation proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation passed by Abraham Lincoln in January 1, 1863 freed all the slaves in the rebeling Confederate states.
The law that freed the slaves in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be freed.
The President who introduced the Emancipation Proclamation was Abraham Lincoln. It was an order that was made during the American Civil War in 1863 that allowed slaves to be free in the Confederate States.
President Lincoln wrote and issues the Emancipation Proclamation, which was a set of two executive orders. The second portion or second executive order found in the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in those Southern States, which had not returned to the Union by January 1, 1863. So slaves were "technically" freed in the Southern States, still in rebellion from the Union, as of January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation did not address the status of slaves in Missouri, or the border states, thus slavery was still legal in these areas until the 13th Amendment was passed and ratified by 3/4s of all of the states. This occurred on December 6,1865.