Question

Why did those sympathetic to slavery in Union Border States such as Kentucky and Delaware not support the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

Those sympathetic to slavery in Union border states, such as Kentucky and Delaware, did not support the Emancipation Proclamation because it granted freedom to slaves if their home southern states did not join the Union by January 1, 1863.

Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware were slave holding border states and not in rebellion from the Union so the Proclamation did not effect their slaves. But, the area of the border states were closely linked to the South and held political, economic, geographic, and social connections to the Southern (and Northern) states. This led border states to not support the Emancipation Proclamation.