Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee were the seceding states.
Emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
Slaves were freed on December 18, 1865, after the civil war. The 13th amendment freed them.
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Slaves in the rebelling states
The southern states in rebellion.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border 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.
The Emancipation Proclamation "freed" slaves in the States that had seceded from the Union; however, this had no effect since those States did not recognize the authority of the Federal government. It said nothing about slaves in the Union states such as Tennessee. Therefore, it freed no slaves.