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Define Emancipation Proclamation

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15y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

A statement of wartime policy, declaring that slaves held in the Confederate states were liable to be freed by Union armies operating in those areas.

It could not actually make decrees about the Southern states, because the Union had no authority over them at that time.

It also did not ban slavery in the four slave-states that had remained loyal to the Union.

Its principal aim was to present the war as a crusade against slavery, making it diplomatically impossible for the British to send aid to the Confederates.

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