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Why didnt Lincoln issue emancipation to slaves in northern states?
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∙ 14y ago
Because it would have had the same disastrous effect on Northern farmers as it did on Southern ones, and would have hampered the war effort.
It confirms that Lincoln was not passionately anti-slavery. Emancipation was a war measure, not principally a crusade.
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Why were slaves freed by the emancipation proclamation?
Because it related to those states where Lincoln had no authority. Southern slaves were only freed when Northern troops directly robbed their owners of their property, which included slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln freed?
Only the slaves in the southern, seceded states. He needed the support of northern slaveholding states to win the Civil War.
Who was freed by Lincoln when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slaves in the rebelling states
What is the emancipation proclaimation?
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was a document which symbolically freed slaves in the United States.
What did Abraham Lincoln sign that freed the slaves form the confederate states of America?
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to prevent foreign recognition of the Confederate States of America. As Lincoln had no power to free slaves in the Confederate States, the document did not free any slaves and exempted slaves in loyal Union states and in those areas of the South occupied by Federal troops.
The Union victory at Antietam paved the way for what historical event?
President Lincoln waited for this victory to release the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the Southern states (but not the Northern states).
What did Abraham Lincoln state in the emancipation?
He declared that slaves in rebellious states were free.
What wartime act by Abraham Lincoln freed those slave living in rebellious states?
The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's wartime act that freed slaves.
Who wrote Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in many Southern States?
Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in which he?
Freed all the slaves in the Confederate States
Who is the author of the emancipation proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation which said that slaves in the Confederate States of America were free.
Why was the Emancipation and Equality of African Americans not recognized?
Well, the country had split. The northern states did not have slaves. The southern states wanted to have slaves. Since Jefferson Davis was their president (or was soon to be) the southerners believed that Lincoln had no power over them. Lincoln did not include the boarder states for fear they would join the Confederate States of America in protest.
