That proclamation had little effect, other than symbolic, because the states that accepted the proclamation were the Union States, which were free states, anyhow. The Confederate States did not accept the jurisdiction of the Union government.
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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.
To free the slaves in the states in rebellion.
In the United States, slaves were freed in 1863. This occurred when President Abraham Lincoln issued what is known as the Emancipation Proclamation.
It was when President Lincon signed a paper saying that all slaves where now free.
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. That was when slaves were officially free in the United States. It did not actually happen until after the Civil War ended in 1865.