Emancipation Proclamation

yes millions of years from now we probably will still remember the Emancipation Proclamation because he says that for the victory of the union and to remember all the troops that died out there for us!!

Some slave states had stayed on the side of the North. If Lincoln had abolished slavery early on in the war, those states might have joined the South, making the war that much harder to win.

Immediately after the Union victory at Antietam (Sept. 1862)

That was President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.

No, not explicitly. Thus the 13th Amendment was felt to be necessary, to make certain the former slaves were clearly citizens. The problem was in the wording of the 13th Amendment, which enshrined "birthright citizenship" as part of the US Constitution, which was an 18th century concept, one no other nation uses, and which is archaic and even bizarre in an age when a pregnant woman changing planes in the US might give birth to a child who could then claim citizenship, even though all but a few hours of its life and its parents' lives have been lived elsewhere.

To give the Northern public a more emotive mission than just national unity (or the cotton revenues) - a crusade against slavery.

To use this new war-aim to shame the British and French out of aiding the South.

To legitimise the freeing of slaves by Union troops in their Southern campaigns, and reduce the Southern workforce.

The Emancipation Proclamation suddenly made the war about slavery. By by the onset of the American Civil War, most other civilized nations had already recognized it for the moral abomination it was and outlawed it. Now, countries like Great Britain (which seriously considered going to war to aid the South) couldn't so without being seen as furthering the cause of slavery.

Until the effective date of the 13th Amendment, in November, 1865.

i believe the news just spread thoughout the nation

The border states were not against slavery, so when the emancipation proclamation comes in, they might have decided to join the confederate states

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The Emancipation Proclamation "freed" slaves in the States that had seceded from the Union; however, this had no effect since those States did not recognize the authority of the Federal government. It said nothing about slaves in the Union states such as Tennessee. Therefore, it freed no slaves.

White southerners where horrified. They were worried that the slaves would revolt. The slaves were confused but were free they started a revolt and put the confederacy into financial struggles .

I think he issued the Emancipation Proclamation because he wanted to free all African Americans in the South.

Lincoln did not "proclaim" the freedom of all slaves in America; only the slaves in the Confederacy. The theory was to attempt to cripple the South economically if the slaves were to revolt. Obviously, he didn't actually have any power over the Confederacy, so the speech was purely symbolical, and was intended to boost morale among Union troops.

And yes, there were still slaves within the Union. Some of the border states still practiced slavery.

Not many slaves freed in the short term, but Union troops were now licensed to free any slaves they came across, and meanwhile free nations abroad could no longer aid the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the South. To emancipate means to free a single or group of people. This was done in an attempt to further disrupt and destroy the Confederation by releasing their main workers.

That was when the Emancipation Proclamation became effective.

He had wanted to issue it in the summer of 1862, when the Confederates were in the ascendant, but his cabinet said it would look like a desperate measure.

So he waited till there was a Union victory, which came (unexpectedly) in September.

But even then, he decided to give the Southern states a few weeks to quit the Confederacy and re-join the Union.

None of them did. And so the Emancipation became effective in January 1863.

Its main effect (and most urgent) was to keep the British from aiding the Confederates, as it would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.

No.

The Proclamation was an order that would never be carried out, because it related only to the states in rebellion, over which Lincoln had no powers. It was actually a tactical move, turning the war into an official crusade against slavery, so that Britain and France could not aid the South without looking pro-slavery themselves. (It was 'effective' from January 1863.)

The Thirteenth Amendment was a change in the Constitution, which made slavery illegal throughout the newly-reunited states of America. (December 1865).

Yes, the Emancipation Proclamation did a lot of good. For one, it freed the slaves in the border states. It also freed the slaves in the rebelling states and throughout the Federal Union. The Proclamation would also ban indentured servitude, and prevent any American from selling themselves for profit.

Fredrick Douglass told Lincoln that he wanted blacks to fight in the war, so after a few months or so, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Prolocomation to let blacks fight in the war.

He also did it to improve the morale of his soldiers, they were losing badly and began to lose hope. He wanted to give them something more to fight for they felt strongly about

The widely read New York City newspaper the New York World was not in favor of any type of general emancipation of slaves. It believed that it would violate constitutional principles and the rules of jurisprudence. Also, it would wreck the industrial system of the entire nation. Additionally, such an emancipation would inaugurate a social and racial revolution that most Anglo-Saxon Americans would find repugnant. Generally speaking, what is seen here is not an isolated Northern view. It was no secret that industry needed cotton, and that while slavery may be a delicate issue in the South so it was in the North. In 1862, racism was thought of as quite normal, at least for plantations.