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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border states.
It was when President Lincon signed a paper saying that all slaves where now free.
Technically slaves could not fight in the war unless they had permission from the owners or there owners had made them fight. But at the end of the Civil War all the slaves were set free this is what the civil war was about the North wanted the slaves to be set free but the south wanted slaves as they relied on them for there economy. this was the Cotton indusrty mainly when the North won the war they decleared all slaves free.
the north won they let free all slaves from the south, and now African Americans can fight in wars
The state that did not free the slaves was Delaware. Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not free slaves either.