It's not too clear. It could mean the issuing of the Proclamation, 'establishing' it as a government policy. Or it could mean the date when it took effect.
Either way, it made very little impact on the lives of the slaves, or on the morale of Northern voters.
Its main effect was to make it ethically impossible for Britain and France to help the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
Slaves in states rebelling against the United States were free
The Emancipation Proclomation
the emancipation proclamation
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
that they were freed from slavery
You mean the emancipation proclamation that Abe signed.
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation was the proclamation that Lincoln gave during the civil war that freed the slaves.
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.
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?