Fredrick Douglass
The Emancipation Proclamation by US President Lincoln was a tactical war decision. As an aside, the Emancipation did not pertain to Union States and Washington DC, which had slavery. The Emancipation was aimed at the Confederate States and carried no weight there, except perhaps for "moral" reasons.
It was completely political. He did not free any slaves with this declaration. Slaves in northern states remained slaves.The issue was a growing population of property, black slaves that the north was collecting. Were they people or property? The United States still allowed slavery, so they technically could not be freed. They could not sell the slaves to other northern slave owners without other political fallout, so the logical choice was to free them so they could fight as soldiers.Slavery ended the December AFTER the civil war ended. Lincoln did not live to see this end.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation - chiefly aimed at preventing the British from aiding the Confederates. (It would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.)
it freed the slaves
The Emancipation Proclamation stated that Southern slaves were regarded as free men by the North. The Emancipation Proclamation was the means by which Lincoln turned the Civil War into a war on slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was the first step in ending slavery in the United States.
Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick Douglas urged Lincoln to free the slaves as a Moral Issue, but it raised morale as well.
He thought that it was a moral issue
Abraham Lincoln and William Lloyd Garrison both believed that slavery was a moral issue.
Because the Emancipation was a war measure, not a moral crusade. Lincoln told his troops to free the Southern slaves because they were enemy property.
The Emancipation Proclamation by US President Lincoln was a tactical war decision. As an aside, the Emancipation did not pertain to Union States and Washington DC, which had slavery. The Emancipation was aimed at the Confederate States and carried no weight there, except perhaps for "moral" reasons.
Lincoln anticipates that certain northerners would criticize and oppose him if he frees the slaves, as they may not agree with the abolition of slavery on both moral and economic grounds. These northerners may also be concerned about the implications of integrating freed slaves into society and the potential impact on their own livelihoods.
Lincoln believed that slavery violated the principles of equality and freedom upon which the United States was founded. He saw it as a moral wrong to deprive individuals of their natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Lincoln viewed slavery as a stain on the nation's character that needed to be addressed.
Abolitionists believed that slavery was a moral issue and campaigned for its eradication on moral grounds. Key figures in the abolitionist movement included Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison. They argued that all individuals deserved to be treated as equals and that slavery was a violation of basic human rights.
A moral issue can be described as an issue that involves a difference of belief or principle and not a matter of preference. What is moral also changes from society to society hence the difficulty at determining what is universally moral.
Abraham Lincoln is suggesting that slavery is such a fundamental moral wrong that if society accepts it as right, then there is no moral standard left to judge anything else as wrong. He is highlighting the gravity of the issue and the need to confront the moral implications of slavery.
He didn't have any right in political terms sense the south had succeeded from the union and no longer deemed Lincoln in command. How ever from a moral stand point he had every right to sense it was unconstitutional to deny them their rights as Americans. Lincoln passes the emancipation proclamation As a moral boast to the union soldiers and increase support in the north for the war. Almost no slaves were free in the south and the north didn't widely use slaves so it really didn't accomplish Anything at that moment other then to increase moral and raise support.