They are referred to as "persons held in slavery". All such people in the rebellling areas were declared to be free. The document only applied to areas in rebellion on Jan. 1, 1863. It did not end make slavery illegal nor make the freed slaves citizens.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves, African Americans, or blacks, whatever you want to call them.
Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.
The Emancipation Proclamation was considered a success and a failure; It all depends on your point of view, the North (Union) sided with Lincoln, and call it a success, and that it told the South (Confederate) that the idea of slavery was wrong. If you were on the Confederate, you would have hated that he sided with the Union, but the real answer is still controversial, in the respect of opinion, but the Emancipation Proclamation was one of the documents that caused all of the friction and tension that eventually led into the Civil War.
The African Americans who migrated called themselves "exodusters"
A Civil Rights advocate. Though that doesn't only apply to African-Americans.
Pioneers
Because it sounds more respectful to African-Americans. If you call an African-American person 'black' or something related to that, they could take it as a racist comment. So it's a lot more respectful and better to call them what they are, African Americans.
She helped African Americans and native Americans get the things and opportunities that Americans had.
Full civil liberties for African Americans
Call and response
call attention to years of injustices
It is because of the world war1 with African-American history when he freed the black people from slavery