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Why did Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation NOT free the slaves in the slaveholding border states still loyal to the Union?
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Why did Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation NOT free the slaves in the slaveholding border states still loyal to the Union?

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Because it could only really apply to the rebellion states. The Confederacy already had a lot of control over their own slavery laws. 
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