The war had not originally been about slavery, so free nations abroad were able to trade with the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves. Lincoln's objective was to shame these nations out of recognising the Confederacy, by turning the war into an official crusade against slavery.
It worked brilliantly. Britain and France both had to give up their plans to send military aid, and the Confederate search for allies would be barren to the end.
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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.
The Emancipation Proclomation
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The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
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.
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?
The Emancipation Proclamation was written on September twenty-second of 1862
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.