Southern states in rebellion.
Because he didn't want to upset powerful slave-owners in the border states, and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy. Answer 2: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was intended to make a statement that the war was intended to end slavery. There were many factors involved with the cause of the war however, he wanted to focus on ending slavery. He felt this would rally more people behind their cause. Interesting that the Emancipation Proclamation did not really free any slave when it was signed. If a slave was living in a Southern state then the Proclamation had no effect until the Union army took over control of that area. There were a few examples of people in the Northern states who still owned slaves for a few years after the proclamation was released.
The Emancipation Proclamation only gave freedom to the slaves in the 10 states which were in rebellion against the Union. Slavery remained legal in Union and border states until the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
Nobody is freed by a Proclamation - only by a law. The Proclamation declared that slaves in the Confederate states were 'thenceforward and forever free' - meaning that Union troops on enemy soil were allowed to liberate any slaves they found. And by implication, that if the Union eventually won the war, and if the same Republican government was still in power, there would be moves to make slavery illegal. The same Proclamation did not affect the four slave-states that had remained loyal to the Union. Lincoln had no wish to upset the people of these 'buffer' states and drive tem into the arms of the Confederacy. This also reminds us that Lincoln was not an abolitionist. He had rejected the final compromise, not in pursuit of abolition, but only because it would have allowed some new slave-states.
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The Emancipation Proclamation.
US President Lincoln issued his final emancipation proclamation in January of 1863. The proclamation decreed that slaves in the Confederate States were free. It had no immediate affect in that most of the slaves in the Confederacy, remained under the control of their "owners".
Slaves living in the Confederate states during the Civil War were freed.
The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's wartime act that freed slaves.
The emancipation proclamation gave all slaves still living in slave states their freedom. It was issued in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.
The Abolitionists, the Quakers, the Radical Republicans, most people living in the North, the Slaves.
states still in rebellion against the Union after January 1, 1863
It licensed the Union troops to liberate any slaves they came across.
Southern states in rebellion.
Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves living in the US by giving his famous Emancipation Proclamation. Addendum: This statement is not correct. The Emancipation Proclamation only offered freedom to those Southern Slaves able to escape to the North. Slavery was practiced before his Proclamation in the North as well as after and until 6 months after the Civil War.