Where did Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves?

Answer 1

He was not inaugurated till 1861, and his first action was to keep the Northern slave-states from joining the Confederacy. He had to be diplomatic with these states, and certainly wasn't about to offend them by freeing their slaves.

Even when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he left these states out of the provisions.

Remember that Lincoln was not passionately anti-slavery. Like most Northerners, he was mainly against the extension of slavery into the new territories, and it was his refusal to agree to this that sparked the war.

Answer 2

If you mean where were the slaves he freed, the answer is nowhere.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in states who were in rebellion, and at the point the rebelling Confederacy did not recognize the Union as its governing power and so it did not effect them.

Therefore, Lincoln was attempting to free slaves in the Confederate South.