It made it hard for foreign nations to recognize and support the confederacy
Because it could not be enforced. Lincoln had no power over the Southern slave-masters. It also was not abolitionist, because it allowed slavery to continue in the states that had not seceded. But it did turn the war into a moral crusade against slavery, so neither Britain nor France could be seen helping the other side.
Lincoln read the first draft of this document to his Cabinet members in Washington D.C. on July 22, 1862. After some changes, he issued the preliminary version on September 22, which specified that the final document would take effect January 1, 1863.An Alternate Answer:The Emancipation Proclamation was Abraham Lincoln wrote and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which consisted of 2 executive orders. The actual Proclamation was never given as a speech.On January 1, 1863, when the final order of the Proclamation was issued and went into effect, the order was sent via telegraph from the War Department. It was then copied and printed in the Washington Evening Star, the afternoon of January 1, 1863.There were celebrations at the White house, which the President attended, and parades throughout Washington DC, New York, and Boston.Historian Harold Holzer wrote in book, "Lincoln: Seen and Unseen" President Lincoln's handling of the proclamation was curiously understated: "Unaware of the power of image-making, Lincoln made the proclamation official in his private office, before just a few witnesses. He made no speech that day, met no delegation of African Americans, visited no slave family, saw no abolitionists, presided over no ceremony."
The Emancipation Proclamation. It could not carry authority in those states, of course (although it licensed Union troops to free any slaves they found), but it did have the effect of preventing Britain from sending military aid to the Confederates. Britain had abolished slavery thirty years earlier, and could not be seen to fight for the slave-owners.
My version is Lincoln and everyone else in the North wanted to do away with slavery. The South's economy depended on slaves to work the cotton fields. When Lincoln came up with the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that freed the slaves, the south reacted with rage and rebelled. When they seceded from the Union, the Civil War started.
The Emancipation Proclamation suddenly made the war about slavery. By by the onset of the American Civil War, most other civilized nations had already recognized it for the moral abomination it was and outlawed it. Now, countries like Great Britain (which seriously considered going to war to aid the South) couldn't so without being seen as furthering the cause of slavery.
Britain had to stay out - they could not be seen to fight for slavery.
Most of them didn't, and it was not seen as a war on slavery at all, until Lincoln made this official with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Because it could not be enforced. Lincoln had no power over the Southern slave-masters. It also was not abolitionist, because it allowed slavery to continue in the states that had not seceded. But it did turn the war into a moral crusade against slavery, so neither Britain nor France could be seen helping the other side.
Lincoln read the first draft of this document to his Cabinet members in Washington D.C. on July 22, 1862. After some changes, he issued the preliminary version on September 22, which specified that the final document would take effect January 1, 1863.An Alternate Answer:The Emancipation Proclamation was Abraham Lincoln wrote and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which consisted of 2 executive orders. The actual Proclamation was never given as a speech.On January 1, 1863, when the final order of the Proclamation was issued and went into effect, the order was sent via telegraph from the War Department. It was then copied and printed in the Washington Evening Star, the afternoon of January 1, 1863.There were celebrations at the White house, which the President attended, and parades throughout Washington DC, New York, and Boston.Historian Harold Holzer wrote in book, "Lincoln: Seen and Unseen" President Lincoln's handling of the proclamation was curiously understated: "Unaware of the power of image-making, Lincoln made the proclamation official in his private office, before just a few witnesses. He made no speech that day, met no delegation of African Americans, visited no slave family, saw no abolitionists, presided over no ceremony."
The Emancipation Proclamation. It could not carry authority in those states, of course (although it licensed Union troops to free any slaves they found), but it did have the effect of preventing Britain from sending military aid to the Confederates. Britain had abolished slavery thirty years earlier, and could not be seen to fight for the slave-owners.
No, it was Lincoln's somewhat desperate tactic for keeping Britain and France from sending aid to the Confederates. The Proclamation turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, so any foreign powers that supported the Confederates would then be seen as pro-slavery themselves.
My version is Lincoln and everyone else in the North wanted to do away with slavery. The South's economy depended on slaves to work the cotton fields. When Lincoln came up with the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that freed the slaves, the south reacted with rage and rebelled. When they seceded from the Union, the Civil War started.
The Emancipation Proclamation suddenly made the war about slavery. By by the onset of the American Civil War, most other civilized nations had already recognized it for the moral abomination it was and outlawed it. Now, countries like Great Britain (which seriously considered going to war to aid the South) couldn't so without being seen as furthering the cause of slavery.
By keeping the British and the French from sending aid to the Confederacy. Both those countries had abolished slavery years before, and could not be seen to fight against the (newly declared) liberators of the slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation was written and issued by President Lincoln. The Proclamation consisted of 2 executive orders. The initial order was issued and went into effect on September 22, 1862, 5 days after the Union had claimed victory in the Battle of Antietam, Maryland. The final or second part of the Proclamation, was issued and went into effect on January 1, 1863.
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A preliminary one was issued in September of 1862 that said the final one would go into effect on January 1, 1863 if the rebellion were still going on. Since it was, the official proclamation was issued on that day.