Emancipation Proclamation

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In high school we were taught that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. His Emancipation Proclamation reads in part "On the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" (http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal9/emancipation.htm).

But a closer inspection of the document reveals that Lincoln's action provided nothing close to a blanket freedom for slaves. It freed only slaves in rebel territory, but specifically did not free them in the border states on the Union side, nor in the southern states wrested from Confederate control. As Secretary of State William Seward wryly observ

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