It only freed those slaves that were still in the Union from States who had not separated from the Union. It, unlike popular belief, did not actually "free" the majority of the slaves, as they were part of the Confederate which, at that time, was a separate governmental body so the Union had no effect on them whatsoever. The slaves were only freed after the Union won the Civil War and slavery was outlawed.
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the South. To emancipate means to free a single or group of people. This was done in an attempt to further disrupt and destroy the Confederation by releasing their main workers.
Emancipation is a noun.
The irony is that the Emancipation Proclamation only proclaimed an emancipation. It did not make it happen. It made slavery illegal but it did not fully emancipate non white citizens, their bondage just changed form.
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The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
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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.
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?