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Not directly.

In itself, it carried no force, because it concerned those states that Lincoln did not preside over. And as an anti-slavery declaration, it was inconsistent because it allowed slavery to continue in those slave-states that had not seceded.

However, it did put out a signal that any foreign country planning to help the Confederates would now be fighting for slavery, which meant that Britain and France, which had both abolished slavery, would have to stay out of it.

The Proclamation also gave the North something more emotive to fight for than the cotton revenues, at a time when war-weariness was starting to set in.

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