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The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 10 states that were still in rebellion in 1863. It did not, however, take into account slaves that were in bordering Union states. These remaining slaves were freed on the state and federal level.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
January 1, 1863. It only freed all slaves in the states that had seceded and formed the Confederacy. In all, it was about 3 million slaves.
The law that freed the slaves in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be freed.
Harriet Tubman, freed many slaves in the 1800s.
The Thirteenth Amendment was the instrument that actually freed the slaves, but his Emancipation Procolamation which went into effect on 1 January 1863 was the first step in the process.
There are no freed slaves remaining on the farm where they had worked as slaves. After emancipation, freed slaves were free to leave the farms where they were enslaved.
It technically freed the slaves in the states in rebellion, but not the ones in the Border states that had stayed loyal. In practice, it did not free many slaves, but the Union troops were licensed to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns. These presently joined the Union armies.