After the battle of Antietam Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In this speech Lincoln freed all slaves in Confederate States. He said that they would be protected by the Union army and if they wished they could serve in the army as well. However slaves were not freed in slave states that were fighting for the Union because they were not under martial law and Lincoln did not have that authority, and he also did not want to lose the support of those states.
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