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Did the emancipation proclamation abolish slavery in the North?

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Did the emancipation proclamation abolish slavery in the North?

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It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control.