First, the proclamation applied only to areas under Union Army control. By the time of the proclamation, none of the Southern states was fully under Union control, so Lincoln knew the proclamation would (at that time) affect only a small percentage of slaves.
Second, Lincoln knew that the Emancipation Proclamation was not really legal. The Constitution specifically allowed slavery and the President did not have the legal authority to end it. Slavery did not actually become illegal until passage of the 13th Constitutional Amendment shortly at the end of the Civil War.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery in Confederate states and weaken the Southern economy during the Civil War.
No, the Emancipation Proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln after conferring with Frederick Douglass.
Abraham Lincoln & the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln who founded the Emancipation Proclamation to stop slavery Abe Lincoln
The Emacipation Proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln. It stated that there was to be no more slavery in the Union states.
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which ended slavery.
Lincoln. But they were freed by Union troops during their Southern campaigns, not by the Proclamation, which was mainly a tatcic to shame the British out of helping the cause of slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Because the Emancipation Proclamation only freed some states from slavery
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery in Confederate states and weaken the Southern economy during the Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation
No more slavery.
the emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.
No, the Emancipation Proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln after conferring with Frederick Douglass.
He signed the Emancipation proclamation, ending slavery in the US for good.
Emancipation Proclamation and African American Rights