LAD #20: Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation states two things very clearly. First it says that  any black people currently bound by the institution of slavery in the Southern states are to be forever free in the Northern Union and that they are to be fully respected and deemed as such by military personnel. Second, it lists the states where the Proclamation applies. Despite the fact that some areas in Louisiana and Virginia, such as Nawlins, did not have to follow the contents of the legislation the list of states composed of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. All those states had to free all there slaves, which would crush their economy, and those slaves would be forever free and to be treated equally. Lincoln claimed the slaves once indebted to the institution of slavery are now fully freed and have rights to be fully maintained in the North.