Actually, it was only slaves behind union lines that were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, but legally it applied to all of
Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth),
By the way,did you used to post under the name StandWatie?
...did you used to post under the name StandWatie?...
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No, I just miss him and wonder what happened to him.
Wiki sez:
The proclamation did not cover the 800,000 slaves in the slave-holding border states of Missouri, Kentucky, West
Virginia, Maryland or Delaware, which were Union states; slaves there were freed by separate state and federal actions.
The state of Tennessee had already mostly returned to Union control, so it also was not named and was exempted.
Virginia was named, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties that were in the process of forming West Virginia, as well as seven other named counties and two cities.
Also specifically exempted were New Orleans and 13 named parishes of Louisiana, all of which were also already mostly under Federal control at the time of the Proclamation.