e Emancipation Proclamation, as issued on January 1, 1863, claimed: "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." From this, it can be seen that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves within the states that were still in rebellion at the time. Thus, the proclamation "technically only freed slaves in those places under Confederate control, in other words in places where Lincoln's proclamation could not be enforced." Ironically, the call for the liberation of black slaves did not apply to those states and areas that were under the control of the Union. Because of this factor, the Emancipation was severely limited in its scope. It was apparent that Lincoln was still trying to be cautious in his drive toward freeing the slaves. He was still primarily concerned with restoring the South to the Union, and was still uncertain as to whether full emancipation
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