The Emancipation Proclamation was not aimed to free slaves in the border states because President Abraham Lincoln . A: regarded those states as insignificant in the war plan
B: noted that those states had a minimal slave population
C: feared that those states would secede from the Union
D: found the strategy to be ineffective in those states

The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to enslaved people in the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland, which had not joined the Confederacy. Lincoln exempted the border states from the proclamation because he didn't want to tempt them into joining the Confederacy.

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