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Emancipation Proclamation By Asia and Navana
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory. Why they started the Emancipation Proclamation
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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The color’s of there uniforms
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Emancipation Proclamation Song
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January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom. From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom. Fun Facts
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A map of the Emancipation Proclamation
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However, many argued that the proclamation didn’t actually free any slaves or destroy the institution of slavery itself—it still only applied to states in active rebellion, not to the slave-holding border states or to rebel areas already under Union control. In reality, it simply freed Union army officers from returning runaway slaves to their owners under the national Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Any escaped slaves who managed to get behind the lines of the advancing Union armies and any who lived in areas subsequently captured by those armies no longer had to be returned because, in the words of the proclamation, they were "thence forecd wared and forever free." Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation primarily as a war measure. Perhaps its most significant immediate effect was that it, for the first time, it officially placed the U.S. government against the "peculiar institution" of slavery, thereby placing a barrier between the South and its recognition by European nations that had outlawed slavery. The South had long counted on aid from England and France. Several articles within the Confederate States’ Constitution specifically protected slavery within the Confederacy, but some articles of the U.S. Constitution also protected slavery—the Emancipation Proclamation drew a clearer distinction between the two. What Effect Did The Emancipation Proclamation Have
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Emancipation Proclamation Document
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Then End Of The Emancipaction Proclamation
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