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At first, why didn’t the Senate allow the law of emancipation (of slaves) a thing?

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Answer:

THey did not have Commander-in-Chief authority over the four slave-holding states that were not in rebellion: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, and so those states were not named in the Proclamation

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