The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued to the executive agencies of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces; it was not a law passed by Congress. It proclaimed all slaves in Confederate territory to be forever free; that is, it ordered the Army to treat as free men the slaves in ten states that were still in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. The Proclamation immediately resulted in the freeing of 50,000 slaves, with nearly all the rest (of the 3.1 million) actively freed as Union armies advanced. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens. It made the destruction of slavery an explicit war goal, in addition to the goal of reuniting the Union.[1]
On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None returned, and the order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control. The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war (in addition to the original, officially-stated goal of maintaining the Union), outraged white Southerners who envisioned a race war, angered some Northern Democrats, energized anti-slavery forces, and weakened forces in Europe that wanted to intervene to help the Confederacy.[2]
Slavery was made illegal everywhere in the U.S. by the Thirteenth Amendment, which took effect in December 1865.
Lincoln made the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation was a military necessity. Lincoln believed the proclamation would weaken the South.
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?
Lincoln made the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation was a military necessity. Lincoln believed the proclamation would weaken the South.
The Emancipation Proclamation was never a law. It was an executive action used as a war measure in the US Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclomation
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
The Emancipation Proclamation.
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
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the emancipation proclamation did nothing it just made the confederate mad. it did nothing until after the civil war.
Lincoln. But they were freed by Union troops during their Southern campaigns, not by the Proclamation, which was mainly a tatcic to shame the British out of helping the cause of slavery.
No, Vicksburg's fall had no bearing on the Emancipation Proclamation.
The emancipation proclamation was intended to free all slaves in the South.