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The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to Confederate areas under Union control, but enslaved people there were declared free by the Confiscation Act.

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The Emancipation Proclamation exempted certain Confederate areas then under Union control; earlier congressional Confiscation Acts (especially the Second Confiscation Act of 1862) authorized the seizure of rebel property — including enslaved people — and declared those slaves of Confederates to be free, particularly when they came under Union protection.