Dear Alas,
Of course there was territory and parts of States that were controlled by the Yankees. But the Proclamation was about States, not territory, conquered or not.
As a Southernor, I respect the soldiers who fought for the Lost Cause, but I’m not proud of slavery. I never owned slaves, so I don’t feel guilty, either.
But I have to hold on to the facts of history, and the Emancipation Proclamation did indeed apply to slaves in Confederate States that the Yankees controlled, even if only in part.
The Tyrant of New Orleans, Gen Ben Butler (spit), for example, freed slaves in all the city and environs.
not quite so. The proclamation exempts the slaves in 13 Parishes of LA, the Tidewater area of VA, parts of coastal NC, SC & GA and a big part of TN. These areas were under control of the Union Army as of 1 Jan 1863.