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The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the U.S., contrary to a common misconception; it applied in the ten states that were still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, but it did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slaveholding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) or in parts of Virginia and Louisiana ...
Kentucky did not abolish slavery during the Civil War, as did the border states of Maryland and Missouri. However, during the war, more than 70% of slaves in Kentucky were freed or escaped to Union lines. [14] The war undermined the institution of slavery. Enslaved people quickly learned that authority and protection resided with the Union army.
By the end of the war more than 70% of the pre-war slaves in Kentucky had been freed by Union military measures or escape to Union lines. [37] After the Emancipation Proclamation made the enrollment and freeing of slaves Union Army policy, commanders extended freedom to the Army recruit's entire family and granted liberty passes to freed slaves ...
With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers ... Elijah Anderson, a free ... Nevertheless, Anderson died in his cell from heart disease on March 4, 1861—the day Lincoln gave ...
By the end of the war in 1865, more than 23,000 African Americans had joined the U.S. Army in Kentucky. That made it the second-largest contributor of United States Colored Troops from any state.
Lincoln was born in a slave state on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. [29] His family attended a Separate Baptists church, which had strict moral standards and opposed alcohol, dancing, and slavery. [30]
During the Civil War, in November 1861, President Lincoln drafted an act to be introduced before the legislature of Delaware, one of the four slave states that did not secede from the Union (the others being Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri), for compensated emancipation. [1] However, this was narrowly defeated.
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 111.4 (2014): 563–589. Townsend, William H. Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (1955) online; Wooster, Ralph A. "Confederate Success at Perryville," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (1961) 59#4 pp. 318–323 in JSTOR(University Press of Kentucky, 2001.)