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Pres. Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation, only freed the slaves in Confederate States. Slaves remaining in northern controlled states were not free. New Orleans may have been one that was controlled by the north, hence their slaves were not free. And the north was not bound by the Proclamation.

Our history states that free Blacks and some Cherokee Indian tribes owned slaves.

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And the north was not bound by the Proclamation

Actually no one was bound by the EP, it was an executive order. Executive orders have no real power outside the executive branch of government. The President cannot make law.