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Who was freed from slavery as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
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∙ 12y ago
None directly - remembering that Lincoln allowed slavery to continue in the slave-states that had not joined the Confederacy.
This is your clue that the Proclamation was not actually about abolition. It was an urgent wartime tactic to keep the British from granting recognition to the South. By making the war look like an official crusade against slavery, Lincoln made it politically impossible for free nations abroad to help the South without looking as though they were fighting for slavery.
Indirectly, of course, it helped Lincoln to win the war, and therefore enabled the eventual abolition of all slavery in the re-united States.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe Emancipation Proclamation officially proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. Those immediately freed were in portions of the Confederate States which were then under Union control. Only slaves residing in states that were then "in rebellion" were officially freed. Specifically, the proclamation stated:
That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Any Confederate state that chose to rejoin the Union by 1 January 1863 could retain their slaves (none chose to rejoin). Union states that had slaves - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee (which had been Confederate but was by then controlled by the Union and effectively rejoined to the Union), and West Virginia (which technically still part of Virginia but was in the process of becoming a separate state from Virginia and part of the Union) were allowed to keep their slaves. Certain parishes of Louisiana around New Orleans were also exempted from the proclamation, as were the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. As Union forces took control of areas in the Confederacy, slaves in those areas were declared free according to the terms of the Proclamation.
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∙ 10y agoDuring the Emancipation Declaration, only the slave who lived in areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union forces were actually freed.
The slaves living in the Border States were not concerned by the Emancipation
Proclamation.
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∙ 13y agoSlaves in those states that had seceded from the union.
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∙ 11y agoAll of the slaves that were in the states the seceded.
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What proclamation freed all slaves in areas still rebelling?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed those enslaved people who had not already freed themselves in Rebel-held states, but not border states where slavery was also legal.
Who was freed by the emancipation proclamation in which region?
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the message of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Negro slaves were emancipated, i.e., freed from the bonds of slavery by Pres. Lincoln.
What happend to african americans as a result of the civil war?
The Civil War effectively ended slavery in the United States.
Which four statements that are true of the Emancipation Proclamation?
abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation jan. 1st 1863 the emancipation proclamtion freed the slaves from slavery I DID A LOT OF RESEARCH BECAUSE I JUST HELPED U ALOT.
If Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation why do we need the third amendment ending slavery?
Because the Emancipation Proclamation only freed some states from slavery
What did the emancipation proclamation mean to enslaved African Americans?
that they were freed from slavery
How were slaves subsequently freed who were not freed by the emancipation proclamation?
By the universal outlawing of slavery in late-1865.
When were the slaves in the Confederacy officially freed?
as a result of the emancipation proclamation
What was Abraham Lincoln position of slavery?
He made the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves
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.
What proclamation freed all slaves in areas still rebelling?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed those enslaved people who had not already freed themselves in Rebel-held states, but not border states where slavery was also legal.
Who does the emancipation proclamation free?
Well it freed many things but the main one is slavery.
Who was freed by the emancipation proclamation in which region?
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
When were the slaves in the Confederacy officially freed according to the union?
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation
According to the union when were the slaves in confederacy officially freed?
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation
When did the Union say the slaves in the Confederacy officially freed?
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation
