The Emancipation Proclamation was written in 1863 issued by President Abraham Lincoln. It declared that all being held as slaves were free. The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to those 10 states that were said to be in rebellion which did not include slave holding state Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri or the areas of confederacy. The initial focus of the war was to maintain the union. Once the Emancipation Proclamation was in place the freedom of slaves became the focus of war. The emancipation stated that “the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them,
