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He didn't change the nature of the war from the American angle. The Proclamation was really for the ears of Britain and France, who could no longer send military aid to the Confederacy without looking pro-slavery themselves.

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It changed the war by giving southern slaves hope. While obviously the Union could not immediately enforce the proclamation (it only freed slaves in the rebellious states, not those states which were still in the Union), it did mean that any slaves captured by Union troops were immediately freed instead of being held as "captured enemy property" as they had been up to that point. It also encouraged slaves to attempt to escape, which damaged the Confederacy's economy and production.

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It didn't.

The Proclamation was an urgent tactical measure, aimed at making it ethically impossible for Britain and France to support the Confederacy. In this, it was totally successful.

As a secondary aim, Lincoln had hoped that it would change the character of the war, by turning it into a crusade against slavery, to give the war-weary North something more emotive to fight for. But this did not happen, and the average Union soldier was never especially interested in the slavery issue.

Northern civilian morale remained low (and Lincoln at risk of being voted out) until some timely victories in Autumn '64 saved his bacon.

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on september 22, 1862 encouraged by the union victory at antietam, lincoln publicly announced that he would issue the emancipation proclamtion to free the slaves

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