The Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln essential says two things. He says that all slaves held in southern states, or states that were currently in rebellion, were declared free in the Union and would be respected by the military and navy. Secondly, he lists all that states that were in rebellion and that the proclamation applied to. Lincoln was very specific in excluding some areas of Virginia and Louisiana but rattled out Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. Any slaves in these states were free and would have their rights maintained in the North.
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