The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the States that were at war with the union; it did not apply to the four "slave States" that did not secede. In other words, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves at the time it was published.
because it changed the way that they were run.
The Emancipation Proclamation was applied everywhere Union Army had seized Confederate territory and border states.
The Confederacy
Only in the states that were in rebellion. The border-states could continue practising slavery for the time being.
The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the group of slaves that were owned in Union states. While it is celebrated for ending slavery, it actually did not free all slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
Emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation could only free slaves in areas held by Union Armies. It did not apply in neutral states (Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, etc.) and also didn't apply where Federal troops had not yet reached (Texas). The final emancipation occurred with the 13th Amendment.
Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and the author of the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln. But they were freed by Union troops during their Southern campaigns, not by the Proclamation, which was mainly a tatcic to shame the British out of helping the cause of slavery.
Slaves in the border states that had remained loyal to the Union, as well as slaves in areas already controlled by the Union army, were not granted freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation. Additionally, the proclamation did not apply to states that were not in rebellion against the United States.