Reply #87: Remember the EP only applied to states that were in a state of rebellion. [View All]

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But the EP did not free any slave in the border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, or Delaware, which were slave-holding states. For that matter Tennessee which had already mostly returned to Union control. was not named and was exempted. Virginia was named, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties that were in the process of forming West Virginia, as well as seven other named counties and two cities. Also specifically exempted were New Orleans and thirteen named parishes of Louisiana, all of which were also already mostly under Federal control at the time of the Proclamation