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"The document did not apply to the four border states, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, slave states that remained loyal to and in the United States."

Neither did it apply to such Confederate jurisdictions under Federal control as Norfolk and New Orleans, nor to such "free" states as New Jersey that had banned "new" slaves while allowing the owners to keep the "old" ones. Pretty cynical, huh?

(Actually, it's been opined that New Jersey was simply being progressive. Slave owners in such other states as New York that had banned slavery outright commonly sold their former charges "down the river" to markets in New Orleans.

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Neither did it apply to such Confederate jurisdictions under Federal control as Norfolk and New Orleans, nor to such "free" states as New Jersey that had banned "new" slaves while allowing the owners to keep the "old" ones. Pretty cynical, huh?

Pretty false too. the US Census for 1860 says the State of New Jersey had ZERO slaves! Not one!

Snifff, snifff ---- another Lost Cause Myth bites the dust. Click the link and check the records.