The largest effect of the Emancipation Proclamation, once ratified at the end of the war, was that agricultural labor became more expensive. Rather than providing room and board and "owning" property, owners now had people who had to be paid and who were not of any monetary value to them. For the blacks, it meant they could choose where to work, but it was very difficult, I imagine, for them to act on this in the early years. The slavery system in the south took years to develop and years, and maybe generations, for it to approach the letter of the Proclamation.
Kept the British and French from granting recognition to the Confederacy and sending military aid.
It meant that Britain and France could not send aid to the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
the battle of Antietam
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.
He was the president during the Civil War. also the leader of Union and the Emancipation Proclomation.
it free'd all the slaves in the south
The Emancipation Proclomation, freeing slaves in the South
1863
why did the emancipation apply only to the confederacy
Kept the British and French from granting recognition to the Confederacy and sending military aid.
The Emancipation Proclomation
This was an order given by President Lincoln to free all slaves from the slavery states in the south.
It ceased to be relevant when the slaves in the Upper South (which was exempted from the terms of the Proclamation) were liberated after the war.
Abraham Lincoln
1863
Emancipation Proclomation
It meant that Britain and France could not send aid to the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.