Slaves in Southern territory held by the Union Army were free immediately, as were slaves who had escaped to the northern states but were held by the Union Army under a law that required slaves to be held as confiscated property of the Confederacy.
That slaves were free!!!!!!!!!!
Abe linclon
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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it was passed injanuary 1, 1863
Abraham Lincoln.
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware.
The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves were free and that slavery was illegal.
All slaves south of the mason-dixon line were free.
the emancipation proclamation was passed by Lincoln in the civil war to free all slaves. it is one of the most famous speeches ever made
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in the President's office in front of his cabinet. Lincoln issued it after the Union Victory at the Battle of Antietam and later at the Gettysburg Battlefield.
It was when President Lincon signed a paper saying that all slaves where now free.