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A Proclamation is not an Act.

Lincoln's Proclamation simply 'proclaimed' that all slaves in the rebel states would be considered free from January 1st 1863, and that Union troops were licensed to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns.

It looked like a failed human-rights document, making empty threats to all the states that he didn't control.

In fact, the most urgent reason for issuing it was to keep Britain and France from sending aid to the South. By turning the war into an official crusade against slavery, Lincoln made it impossible for free nations abroad to recognise the Confederacy without looking pro-slavery themselves.

In this, it was totally successful, and ended Lincoln's nightmare-prospect of foreign intervention on the side of the enemy.

But the troops were also able to damage the Southern economy by reducing their workforce, and putting these freed blacks to work in the service of the Union armies.

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