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Why have many historians said that the Emancipation Proclamation was a political strategy to aid the North in the Civil War?
ChuckSiata
The War Between the States was not only a military issue, it was apolitical one as well. The background of the political side began when Lincoln began doing away, or rather, suspending parts of the US Constitution. The writ of habeas corpus for example was suspended. It allowed anyone in the North to be imprisoned without due process. The "victims" of this were thought to be Southern sympathizers. As in any such situation, abuses of government power, normally protected by the Bill of Rights, for example, would be ignored.
Lincoln had no political reason to do this, instead he used the crisis of a war to make arrests as a military act to protect the Federal government.
The Emancipation Proclamation was also billed as a military necessity. The unwritten political side was to endear England & France from recognizing the Confederacy, and of course encourage Southern slaves to escape to the North.
Examining the Emancipation in that light, it can be seen why it was a political move disguised by a military necessity.
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Why would the Emancipation Proclamation be called a proclamation without emancipation how was the proclamation a northern WAR strategy?
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