The Emancipation Proclamation was issued primarily for military necessity and to affect the government and public opinion of the foreign powers, particularly those of France and Great Britain.
Abraham Lincoln was the one.
US President Abraham Lincoln, by the Emanicipation Proclamation issued on 1 January 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation was the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
The Emanicipation Proclamation was a set of 2 executive orders, written and issued by President Lincoln. It was never read as a speech, to the public at large. He did read it and review it with his cabinet in July of 1862.
It was chiefly an act of war - turning the war into an official crusade against slavery, so that the British and French would have to give up their plans to aid the South. (It would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.)
It was actually 1863 and President Lincoln issued it the free all the slaves in the CONFEDERATE states not the Union slave states. He was able to do this because he could take away 'property' from an opposing army.
Nobody was "at" Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation, was a set of 2 executive orders, written and issued by President Lincoln. President Lincoln thought emancipation was justified as a military necessity to preserve the Union. "If the Proclamation of Emancipation was essentially a war measure, it had the desired effect of depriving the Confederacy of much of its valuable laboring force.
The president signs the proclamation.
hoover
Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and the author of the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
As President, on October 3, 1789, George Washington made the proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.