because it changed the way that they were run.
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.
The Emancipation Proclamation was applied everywhere Union Army had seized Confederate territory and border states.
The Confederacy
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.
The states in rebellion - in other words, the Confederate states.
South Carolina
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.
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 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.
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.
No the emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves immediately. instead it freed very few people because the emancipation proclamation did not apply to slaves in the border states who were fighting for the union states. it also did not act upon the slaves in the south that were already under union control.
The Emancipation Proclamation specifically only freed slaves in those states "the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States". In other words, it did NOT free slaves in the four slave states which had not seceded (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware), nor in Tennessee (which was occupied and effectively controlled by Union troops and therefore not "in rebellion"), nor in that portion of Virginia which would become West Virginia (which had seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union). It also was not considered to apply to the southern part of Louisiana, which was under Union control at the time.Missouri was a complicated case; a portion of the government had voted to secede, but it wasn't the portion that actually had the power to do so, so it was considered by the Union to be a Union state and by the Confederacy to be a Confederate state with a government-in-exile. In any event, the Proclamation was held not to apply to Missouri.Slavery did not officially end in these areas until either the states themselves ended it, or until 1865, when the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in the entire US was ratified.Also, in practice, the only immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that slaves in captured by Union troops became free citizens rather than "contraband" (which is what they had been legally considered up to that point), since the portions of the Confederacy which were actually under Confederate control did not recognize the legality of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Because Lincoln didn't want to upset powerful slave-owners in the border states and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy.
The states in rebellion - in other words, the Confederate states.