Hi, that's what they told me in Tarleton State Univ (then a junior college in Texas A&M Univ.) Abilene Christian University summer American Heritage scholarship, and the University of North Texas. The Emancipation Proclamation only coverred the territory under rebellion- others not under rebelion kept household servants by fancier names. It was finally siezed on by Lincoln at a low point in the war for the Union. Nothing was ever done about the Indians captureing slaves like Cynthia Ann Parker and Hermann Lehmann of Texas, or about the hundreds of Indians carried to the Caribean Islands to replace African slaves lost to huricanes and disease. Some of these Great Lakes Indians escaped to Florida and joined the Seminoles. My Double First cousin in Florida is working on her P.Hd. in history and has found records and interviews on these Indian slaves which dumbfounded her teacher. Take care, Charles Wyly