[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Effective January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation absolutely, positively did include Texas. It included ten states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and he named each one in his speech.

It took a year and a half for Texan slaves to be informed that they were no longer slaves, and it took officials from New York and New Jersey to travel there and inform them of it because their own states' officials wouldn't tell them.

You neglected to mention the Union States (Delaware & Kentucky) that were not covered by the Proclamation, and where Slavery remained legal until the 13th Amendment was ratified, almost TWO years later...