Why did Abraham Lincoln write the emancipation?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln drafted the Proclamation of Emancipation because he did it to save all the slaves and try to see if he could have people help him. This proclamation only freed the slaves in those areas under Confederate control, and since the Confederates did not consider themselves to be a part of the United States it essentially did nothing except give the hard-core abolitionists that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you do a good thing. There was some hope that it would encourage Southern slaves to fight for the Union, but they would have had to escape to the North first.

Answer 2

Lincoln felt that his most important task was to bring the Union back together. He did not want the issue of slavery to divide the nation further than it already had.

Even so, Lincoln realized how important slave labor was to the South. Without it, the South would grow weak and be easier to defeat. By the summer of 1862, the president had decided in favor of emancipating, or freeing, enslaved African Americans.

Answer 3

Most urgently, to keep the British out of the war by declaring it to be a war against slavery.

Also to restore morale in the North by presenting the war as a crusade, not just a commercial dispute.

Answer 4

Lincoln shifted to the Emancipation Proclamation because he did not want the British to be able to aid the Confederates. He also wanted to introduce ethics as opposed to politics into the issue of slavery.

Answer 5

He thought slave labor helped the Confederacy

Answer 6

He wanted to stop segregation and slavery so that this nation might live