The Emancipation Proclamation, in general, states two central ideals. One: that any blacks that held as slaves in the Southern Seceded States, currently joining the rebellion with the Union, are considered "forever free" and are to be fully respected and considered a citizen with the social liberties, freedom, and respect of any other -- this was prominent in the military (blacks were to be considered regular soldiers and were to be held in the same standards as any other, white or black). The second ideal explained the extent to which these ideals were to be implied (what states the proclamation applies to). Even though some regions in Louisiana and Virginia do not have to comply to Lincoln's emancipation (an example would be Nawlins), the following states of: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia have to stand by the freedoms that Lincoln expresses in his speech. Anyone considered a slave that resided in these states were to be, from then on, considered free men, liberated from their perpetual servitude.
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