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[–] SubSaharanBeast [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Exactly. Further, the Emancipation Proclamation said that any Southern state that returned to the Union by January 1st 1863 could keep their slaves along with the Northern slave states which were unaffected and retained slavery until after the war was over.