Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator, only issued the Emancipation Proclamation to dissuade the French and British from joining the Confederate side and he only issued it after the Battle of Antietam which was a draw. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the areas under confederate control which means slaves in the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and any part of the former south in the hands of the Union were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation and were still in bondage until the 13 Amendment. As goes for the average confederate soldiers in the military, the northern soldiers felt the same too, they didn't want to fight a war where after they would had compete for jobs with the black men also. Many northern states before the war even issued laws prohibiting blacks from entering their state. Connecticut didn't want to teach blacks fearing that they would attract more to their states. Hey look I can pull quotes out too, to further my point! Abraham Lincoln, Ã¢â‚¬Å“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, 1859. and one last note I gotta agree with Lee on his quote, Africa is a shit hole place full of disease and no food.