The Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border states.
The Obama document
The importation of slaves in the United States was abolished on January 1, 1808.
The Confederate States of America
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st 1863 (Union), it freed all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states not the Union slave states.
I think you may be a little confused. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves that were in areas that were- AT THAT TIME- in rebellion against the Union. Not the slaves rebelling, but the states or parts of states where slaves lived,
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border states.
Slaves in states rebelling against the United States were free
Slaves in the rebelling states
The Obama document
It freed slaves in states outside of the Union. It freed the slaves in the Confederacy. It freed slaves in the rebelling states. It frees slaves. It was issued by American President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, using war time powers to free the slaves of the ten states in rebellion against the United States government. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves.
It freed slaves in states outside of the Union. It freed the slaves in the Confederacy. It freed slaves in the rebelling states. It frees slaves. It was issued by American President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, using war time powers to free the slaves of the ten states in rebellion against the United States government. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves.
states in rebellion against the United States. all rebelling states
The document that President Abraham Lincoln used to free the slaves was called the Emancipation Proclamation. It freed slaves in the rebelling Southern states only, not border states. They were freed later. As Lincoln had no authority to free slaves, this was a war measure. The results were that slaves in areas captured by Union forces were freed.
President Lincoln's "Emancipation proclamation".
The Declaration of Independence had nothing to do with freeing any slaves. You are probably thinking of the Emancipation Proclamation in which Lincoln ordered that slaves be freed in any Confederate state that did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. The Proclamation did not cover any slaves in Union states.
All slaves in areas under rebellion (the south) were free of slavery. The slaves in non rebelling states (the north) were still in slavery