The Proclamation was an urgent wartime measure, aimed at keeping Britain and France out of the war.
The mid-term elections did not show much support for it at home - reminding us of the basic fact that most Northerners were not Abolitionists.
The presence of more and more black soldiers in Northern uniform slowly started to influence American opinion about blacks as potentially equal citizens.
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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After the Emancipation Proclamation, thousands of American soldiers enlisted in the Union military. In fact during the last two years of the war, 180,000 former slaves enlisted in the US military.
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, permitted African Americans to fight for the North during the American Civil War. This proclamation declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were declared free, and authorized the recruitment of African American soldiers into the Union Army. By the end of the war, over 180,000 African American soldiers had served in the Union Army.
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actively began recruiting African American soldiers to fight
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Emancipation Proclamation and African American Rights
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