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Many British critics did not approve of the Emancipation Proclamation. They did not feel it was a good idea.
Lincoln signed the proclamation while he was in Washington, yes. Even though it was called a "proclamation", Lincoln himself did not have to read it out loud.
Neither expected the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation before the war ended.
Freeing all slaves in the states fighting against the union
Abraham Lincoln was active politically during much of his career. In a speech concerning the emancipation of slaves, Lincoln offered three possible solutions in a famous speech he made in Peoria. His ideas were:1. Emancipation with the colonization of the freed slaves;2. Emancipation without colonization and having the freed slaves remaining as a "subject class", meaning a class below whites; and3. Emancipation with political and social equality with whites.
Antietam
January 1st 1863. He gave the slave-states a bit of notice, in case any of them wanted to re-join the Union before the date of Emancipation, but none of them did.
Abraham Lincoln. Of course, you could technically also say that Jefferson Davis was also president at that time (of the Confederacy).
In London, the newspaper, Times, was sarcastic about the first issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. It correctly pointed out that the slaves not under the control of US President Lincoln could not be freed, while the slaves within the Union remained slaves.
yes, my civics teacher told me. he's known as the great emancipator. Lincoln, during the Civil war, was politically for slavery, but not morally. He only did this because he felt it would improve people's opinions about him, making it easier for him to maneuver throughout the battlefield without the public questioning him. Although he did state he had slaves, he treated them as family members and respected them. He eventually released the Emancipation Proclamation Act, which released all slaves in all states. Unfortunately, he did not control every state and slaves in the uncontrolled states were still held by the South.
Also Lincoln.
Antietam (Sharpsburg) was the Union vixctory in September 1862 that gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, liberating the slaves in the rebel-states - in theory, but not of course in practice, since he did not control those states.