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On September 22 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..
On September 17 the bloody Battle of Antietam gave Lincoln the opportunity he needed. He issued the preliminary proclamation to his cabinet on September 22, and it was published the following day. 5. The Emancipation Proclamation didnât actually free all of the slaves. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didnât apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union.