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The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves in the United States, it only freed slaves that were not living under Union Control (Norths Control). The Emancipation Proclamation also states that black soldiers can fight for the union, at this point the Union were in need of soldiers. Our 16th President Abraham Lincoln issued this Proclamation
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∙ 12y agoIt was an urgent wartime measure, aimed at keeping Britain from carrying out its threat to support the Confederacy.
The Proclamation was not a law. It simply 'declared' that all Southern slaves were 'thenceforward and forever free'. In practice, this simply gave the Union armies a licence to liberate slaves in any territory they occupied. (Slavery in the four states of the Upper South, which had stayed loyal, was allowed to continue.)
The message was chiefly aimed at free nations abroad, signalling that the war was now an official crusade against slavery, and that they could not grant recognition to the Confederacy or send military aid, without looking pro-slavery themselves.
Lincoln had been wanting to issue his Proclamation all through the summer of 1862, when Lee was scoring one triumph after another in Virginia - with the British watching carefully to see whether the Confederacy was a viable nation.
But if he had issued it on the heels of a string of Southern victories, it would sound like a desperate measure (which it partly was), and not carry conviction.
It was the unexpected Northern win at Antietam in September 1862, that gave Lincoln the credibility to issue it at last. The British backed off. The Proclamation had achieved its principal aim.
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∙ 12y agoHe declared that slaves in rebellious states were free.
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What document set the slaves free?
The Emancipation Proclomation
What did the harshest British critics say about the Emancipation Proclamation of US President Lincoln?
Many British critics did not approve of the Emancipation Proclamation. They did not feel it was a good idea.
How did the emancipation proclamation feel about the war?
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
Emancipation of Proclamation?
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
What was the name of Lincoln's announcement that he would free the slaves?
That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
What occurred first Formation of the Ku Klux Klan Gettysburg address Presidential election of 1876 Emancipation proclamation?
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Which President proclaimed that the slaves in the southern states were to be freed?
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.
When did the Union say the slaves in the Confederacy officially freed?
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation
Was the Emancipation Proclamation linked to the Fall of Vicksburg?
No, Vicksburg's fall had no bearing on the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was emancipation proclamation intended to do?
The emancipation proclamation was intended to free all slaves in the South.
Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?
Who was freed by the emancipation proclamation in which region?
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
