The Emancipation Proclamation was not a law but an executive order by the president. It needed the 13th amendment to the US Constitution to give it the weight and force of law.
Technically the Proclamation was a wartime measure, and would expire at the end of the war.
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
No. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation 1 January 1863
Many British critics did not approve of the Emancipation Proclamation. They did not feel it was a good idea.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was the eventual basis for the Thirteenth Amendment and was ratified in 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
After President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
Abraham Lincoln was a president of the United States of America. He was president of the Union during the Civil War, and wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery, which had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It also prohibited involuntary servitude.
In the United States, slavery was brought to end by the emancipation proclamation of President Lincolon and Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which ended slavery in the United States in 1865.
The law that freed the slaves in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be freed.