1. “Freedom” helps The North.
The Emancipation
Proclamation

2. Confederate Slavery Why slavery helps The South. ●labor force
●give soldiers a break
What if Slavery is taken away?
●The system collapses

3. Lincoln on Slavery, The Union.
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do that…If I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that.”

4. Why do you think this is a good time to issue
Who wins the Battle of Antietam?
Why do you think this is a good time to issue
the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. Emancipation Proclamation
●Freed slaves in confederate states.
●Did not free slaves any place else.
●Most slaves were in locations where the government was unable to enforce the law.

6. Reaction to Emancipation
●Angered slave owners in South.
●Angered most abolitionists.
●Caused slaves to join the military.

7. African Americans: The new Union Soldier.
●180,000 by the end of the war.
●Organized into segregated regiments with white leaders.
●Received less pay than white soldiers.

8. Homework:
1. How was slavery both a strength and
weakness for the Confederacy
during the Civil War?
2. Did Lincoln issue The Emancipation
proclamation too late, too early, or
at the perfect moment?