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Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order from President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 declaring all slaves in the confederate states free.
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How did the emancipation proclamation affect the character and conduct of the war?
In no significant way at all except as propaganda. It did not free any slaves in the Union (north), only the slaves in the rebelling states (Confederacy/south), where the Union had no control at the time and therefore could not enforce it. So it freed no slaves at all!
What is the relationship between Lincoln's goals of preserving the union and freeing the slaves?
President Lincoln is famously quoted as writing: "If I could free all the slaves and preserve the Union I would do that.
Lincoln's primary aim was preservation of and restoration of the Union. Slavery was a very distant secondary concern, even though he was well aware that the cause of Civil War was certainly slavery. The key to his strategy was to convince the legislatures of slave states to change their statutes relating to slavery.
How was the emancipation proclamation limited?
The shortcomings of the Proclamation fall in two parts. It's language was measured as a blow against an enemy. Slaves, (chattel) were freed in the "rebelling states" but not in the border slave states that sided with the Union. Secondly, not fighting the Civil War to end slavery but to "Preserve the Union" Lincoln's proclamation is seen more as a military strategy to limit the economic viability of the enemy and foment rebellions among the slaves of the South seeking freedom. Not until the 13th Amendment, after Lincoln's death, was slavery abolished.
How did abolitionists influence Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
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What happened to Northern slaves when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued?
That would mean slaves in the Border states - slave-states that had voted against joining the Confederacy.
Those people would have to remain slaves until the war was won, as Lincoln did not want to upset powerful slave-owners in these crucially important states.
Because they were losing all their battles in Virginia, and it would have looked like a desperate measure.
The "war measure" rational for President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was more then that In choosing his main reason as a war measure was true enough, however, Lincoln did not emphasize that emancipation would bring the war to the economy of the South, or that emancipation would strike at the root cause of the war. The war measure of emancipation would clear the way for military service by former slaves.Putting his reasons that way had clear cut advantages. First it was undeniably derived from the concrete military necessities Lincoln could invoke in order to end slavery.
Before the passing of the 13th amendment, Lincoln had no power to end slavery in the slave states except on grounds of military necessity.
It may or may not have served a military interest to break the economic system of the South, or to provoke a slave insurrection, but the likelihood was that quavering public opinion in the border states might have provoked secession. He therefore had been very cautious until after the Battle of Antietam which appeared to solve the potential Maryland disaster if it seceded.
Also, as was seen in the Spring of 1863, even prior to that there was a shortage of voluntary enlistments. By forging ahead on the military necessity Lincoln evaded both a possible challenge from the Taney Supreme Court and put the onus on emancipation opponents to come up with an alternative source of soldiers. This happened in the Spring of 1863 via conscription, but that was highly controversial.
Lincoln's method made emancipation irreversible. If Lincoln freed slaves for economic reasons, then it would have been easier to enslave them after the war to rebuild the economy.
It would be impossible to re-enslave Blacks, however, who chose to take up arms for the Union against the South. Also, it would make a case for former slave citizenship.
This however was not solid and Lincoln's favoring colonization of Freed Blacks made his views on citizenship questionable.
The so-called argument of English citizens not being in favor of slavery, carries no currency at all.
In fact, full voting rights for all English citizens would wait until 1928 And that after WW 1..
Military necessity - it meant that Britain and France could no longer support the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
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Why was the emancipation proclamation issued prior to the civil war and after?
It wasn't.
It was issued in mid-war, in order to put a different complexion on the war aims, and present it to the outer world as a crusade against slavery (which it didn't start as).
This made it impossible for the British to aid the Confederates without compromising their own moral position as the proud upholders of liberty throughout the British Empire.
It was an adroit move by Lincoln, and it achieved its aim at once.
Who was freed by Lincoln when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slaves in the rebelling states
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in which he?
Freed all the slaves in the Confederate States
Why did Abraham Lincoln a white man write the emancipation proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln, due in part to his religious upbringing, was strongly morally opposed to slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, only applying to the succeeded states, in order to get the ball moving on abolishing slavery.
Is there a quote from the emancipation proclamation?
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
How is the emancipation proclamation an example of propaganda?
It kept foreign powers from helping Confederate states, but it really did free slaves as the federal (Union) troops advanced. Thousands were freed, but it helped propaganda-wise!
What was William seward recommendation to Lincoln about when to issue the proclamation?
William Seward recommended that President Lincoln wait until a major Union victory occurred before issuing the proclamation.
Who was granted freedom by emancipation proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln is the one who freed the slaves.
Harriet Tubman freed the slaves over 300 people.
You have been pooping more then usual could you be pregnant?
Not necessarily. You need to have more symptoms then that.
Which states did the emancipation proclamation cover?
Only the states in rebellion - in other words, the very states over which Lincoln had no authority at that time.
But the Proclamation was actually meant for the ears of free nations abroad. It was to shame Britain and France out of aiding the Confederates, because the war had now officially been turned into a crusade against slavery, so other countries couldn't send military aid to the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
How did the Emacipation Proclamation affect the enslaved people in the south?
It didn't directly - Lincoln did not carry any authority in the South at that time. Also, he allowed slavery to continue in the four states of the Upper South that had voted to stay loyal.
Indirectly, it did a good deal for liberation. Union troops fighting in the South were now licensed to free any slaves they came across. And more significantly, the Emancipation had the effect of keeping Britain and France from helping the Confederacy and sending military aid - they could not do this without looking pro-slavery themselves.
What larger effect did the emancipation proclamation have on the civil war?
1. It gave the Union soldiers a moral reason to fight. As a result, there were more passionate Union soldiers, and an overall stronger army, such an idea was doubtful. In fact General in Chief Henry Wager Halleck appointed a special internal figure, Charles Halpine to quiet the protests of white Union soldiers on even the idea of having Fee Blacks in their ranks.
There is no evidence that Union soldiers were at war with the risk of making their wives windows or their children fatherless.
2. It gave the African Americans in the Union freedom to join the army. In the Civil War about 200,000 African Americans fought, and 40,000 gave their lives to the cause.
