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What states did the Emancipation Proclamation not apply to?
The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to enslaved people in the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland, which had not joined the Confederacy. Lincoln exempted the border states from the proclamation because he didn’t want to tempt them into joining the Confederacy.
Did the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the South?
Although the Proclamation initially freed only the slaves in the rebellious states, by the end of the war the Proclamation had influenced and prepared citizens to advocate and accept abolition for all slaves in both the North and South.
Where was slavery still legal after the Emancipation Proclamation?
Where did slavery remain legal, even after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War? Maryland and Missouri, both border states which found themselves on the Union side, had finally abolished slavery late in the war.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation mean for slaves living in Kentucky?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation mean for slaves living in Kentucky? They were freed. How did Abraham Lincoln justify suspending habeas corpus during the Civil War? He was willingly to violate the constitution in order to save the nation.
When were slaves freed in the northern states?
1804
Slavery itself was never widespread in the North, though many of the region’s businessmen grew rich on the slave trade and investments in southern plantations. Between 1774 and 1804, all of the northern states abolished slavery, but the institution of slavery remained absolutely vital to the South.
When were slaves freed in Delaware?
Finally, on February 12, 1901, Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery—more than 30 years after the rest of the nation.
Who was the last state to free slaves?
West Virginia
West Virginia became the 35th state on June 20, 1863, and the last slave state admitted to the Union. Eighteen months later, the West Virginia legislature completely abolished slavery, and also ratified the 13th Amendment on February 3, 1865.