Emancipation Proclamation

The Proclamation licensed Union troops to free any slaves they came across in their southern campaigns.

It was clear that these ex-slaves could never be returned to their ex-masters.

Slavery was dead.

Only in the states that were a part of the Confederacy

Such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed services.

it made it ok for the Union soldiers to free slaves as they went through the south

the Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. the first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. the second order, issued January 1, 1863, named 10 specific states where it would apply. Lincoln issued the Executive Order by his authority as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy" under Article II, section 2 of theU.S. Constitution.

There is no emancipation status for South Carolina.

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, aimed to free enslaved people in the Confederate states during the American Civil War. Its purpose was to weaken the Confederacy's economy and bolster the Union's moral cause, transforming the war into a fight against slavery. While it did not immediately free all enslaved individuals, it set a precedent for future actions towards abolition and encouraged escaped slaves to join the Union Army. Ultimately, it laid the groundwork for the eventual passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.

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No slaves were directly freed by the Proclamation.

It applied only to slaves in the states that were in rebellion, over which Lincoln had no authority at that time. And it allowed slavery to continue in the states of the Upper South that had remained loyal.

However, it licensed Union troops to free any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns. This deprived Southern farmers of their labour-force, and helped to starve the Confederacy into submission.

So in a roundabout way, the Proclamation did help to free the slaves.

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This was wen propaganda began showing how the slaves were treated. Up until then, the war was fought in order to keep the country together.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves in Confederate-held states. However, it didn't free the slaves of the border states or anywhere else under federal control. Also, if any Confederate states quit fighting before January 1, they could keep their slaves.

Privately, Lincoln always supported abolition, but he felt that he had to be slow about introducing it to the country for it to be accepted. His original political position was Containment, preventing the spread of slavery from the southern states. Once the war broke out, Lincoln devised the Emancipation Proclamation to lure the Southern states back into the Union, and to prevent foreign nations from forming an alliance with the Confederacy. In the event, the rebel states remained intractable, but the foreign powers remained neutral.

With the above thoughts in mind, US President Lincoln had already made his personal view about slavery well known. Especially in the 1858 debates with Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

It was only later in the Summer of 1862, did Lincoln begin his drafts on the preliminary emancipation proclamation. This was due to the fact that the war was not rapidly moving in the direction that Lincoln had hoped for.

France and England continued to trade and supply the South irregardless of the proclamation.

Basically, in Lincoln's mind the proclamation would be a war measure. And, even more radical Republicans in his cabinet advised Lincoln not to issue it for fear of how the slave holding border states might react.

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First of all, the minor needs to live in a state that has emancipation statutes that would allow them to apply. The States' laws, available on the state government web site, will provide the basic information necessary to file for emancipation, and define the correct format for the petition or the forms that must be used.

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It gave the Union control of the Tennessee River.

Basically there was none. It did not have any serious supporters except from Radical Republicans who suggested that freed slaves that remained on the plantations could receive free farmland. This proposal had no serious Northern support. The Radical Republicans also gave a recommendation that Union soldiers should receive land taken from wealthy Southern plantation owners.

The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.

He had to wait till there was a Northern victory, or it would look like a desperate measure.

emancipation proclamation & the Gettysburg Address.