The Proclamation could only 'proclaim' freedom for Southern slaves, not enforce it.
It did not apply to the Northern slave-states, so it wasn't abolitionist - as Lincoln wasn't.
Its immediate purpose was to keep the British out - they could not support the Confederates after this without looking pro-slavery.
There was also a longer-term objective - to give the North something more emotive to fight for than just the cotton revenues.
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
No. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclomation
the emancipation proclamation
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
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.
The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?
The Emancipation Proclamation was written on September twenty-second of 1862
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
He passed the emancipation proclamation.
No, Vicksburg's fall had no bearing on the Emancipation Proclamation.