It had no real immediate effect since it applied only to the seceded states who did not acknowledge Lincoln's government. It may have a somewhat demoralizing effect on the South and was an encouragement to the North and to the affected slaves, it they heard about it.
Britain and France had to abandon their plans to send military aid to the Confederates.
By using the Proclamation as an instrument to turn the war into a crusade against slavery (which it hadn't been), Lincoln made it politically impossible for free nations abroad to help the South.
Both Britain and France had abolished slavery many years earlier, and could not be seen to fight for the cause of the slave-owners.
The proclamation freed up resources for the North. It freed no actual slaves, but did allow the North to turn the issue of the civil war into a war against slavery instead of a war against state rights. This stopped the plans of some countries which were sympathetic to the South's cause from aiding them in the war effort.
It had no real immediate effect since it applied only to the seceded states who did not acknowledge Lincoln's government. It may have a somewhat demoralizing effect on the South and was an encouragement to the North and to the affected slaves, it they heard about it.
Britain and France had to stay out of the war - they could not send aid to the Confederates without looking pro-slavery.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln was created in 1864.
On January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
He passed the emancipation proclamation.
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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No. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and the author of the original draft of 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.
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