LAD #20: Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation was effective in declaring two things. It stated that any black people that were being held as slaves in Southern states, which were current rebelling against the Union, were declared "forever free" in the Union and that they should have been fully respected by military and naval personnel. It also declared all the states in which the proclamation was effective. These states were Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. There were certain areas in Louisiana and Virginia that did not fall under the proclamation, like New Orleans, but the rest of the territories were required to consider their slaves fully free of their servitude.