The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation was directed to the areas of the United States in rebellion, and freed the slaves in those areas.
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He was the president during the Civil War. also the leader of Union and the Emancipation Proclomation.
Kept the British and French from granting recognition to the Confederacy and sending military aid.
It applied to the Southern states (over which Lincoln had no authority) and not to the Northern slave states of Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland.
It meant that Britain and France could not send aid to the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
1863
why did the emancipation apply only to the confederacy
The Emancipation Proclomation
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclomation
1863
it free'd all the slaves in the south
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Abraham Lincoln
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emancipation proclomation is one
The Emancipation Proclomation, freeing slaves in the South