Freeing slaves in the border states was not a result of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln exempted the border states from the proclamation because he didn’t want to tempt them into joining the confederacy.
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union's available manpower.
