The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to the Confederate states, but not all of the salve states had joined the confederacy. There were several slave states still in the Union, and they continued as slave states after the proclamation.
Because it allowed slavery to continue in the four states of the Upper South that had voted to remain loyal.
The Proclamation was not, in fact, the human rights document it sounded like.
It was a highly successful wartime tactic to shame Britain out of supporting the Confederates. (It would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.)
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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.
Emancipation Proclamation
It was issued by US president Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln. Of course, you could technically also say that Jefferson Davis was also president at that time (of the Confederacy).
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Abolitionists pressured Lincoln to end the slavery after the start of the Civil War in 1861. These pressures also affected Lincoln to declare the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
STUDY your history book and u will find out
STUDY your history book and u will find out
They wanted it to be an Abolitionist war, which it wasn't. Even after he issued the Proclamation, they were disappointed, because he still allowed slavery to continue in the Border states.
Lincoln. But they were freed by Union troops during their Southern campaigns, not by the Proclamation, which was mainly a tatcic to shame the British out of helping the cause of slavery.
Lincoln made the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation was a military necessity. Lincoln believed the proclamation would weaken the South.
On January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Emancipation Proclamation
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
He passed the emancipation proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln