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…showed last 75 words of 216 total…document freed slaves, however, it did not free all of the slaves. It left the slaves of the boarder states in bondage. The Emancipation Proclamation order only the slaves released that were in areas still in rebellion. These two instances show that while Lincoln had no intention of changing relations between the races, circumstances dictated that he needed to change them to a certain extent. This supports the original statement made by President Lincoln in 1858.