Question by dancewithturtles♫: Can someone explain the Emancipation Proclamation to me?
I’m kind of confused…What does it mean? Please tell me in simple terms. Where did it/did not apply? I haven’t covered “Union” states and such in History yet and I have no idea what that is. Please help!
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1) What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation? The Emancipation Proclamation’s core purpose was to threaten the Confederate States back into the Union, through the freeing of all slaves in those states. The reason why most of the Confederate States were opposed to abolition was because their economies relied heavily on slave labor. Thus, the Union took advantage of that fact in their attempt to convince/threaten the Confederate States back into the Union by declaring that, if the Confederate States did not rejoin, all of the slaves in those states would be freed. Freeing the slaves was NOT the primary intent of the Proclamation; it was only the means by which the Union was attempting to accomplish a far different goal. It is very likely that, in the eyes of Lincoln, the freeing of the slaves was the far greater goal. However, this was not necessarily true of the majority of the Union government.
2) What was accomplished? The Union’s primary goal of convincing the Confederate States into rejoining was not accomplished. However, Lincoln’s goal of freeing as many slaves as possible was indeed accomplished.
3) How many slaves were freed by this proclamation? The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared the slaves which were living in states not under Union control to be free.
4) Why did the proclamation have so much impact? It had an incredible impact because it was the first major action which was ever taken by the federal government concerning the legality of slavery.
Lincoln did use it as a device to free the slaves in the south. Yet the political climate was a bit edgy at the time and he actually did not free any northern held slaves (yes, there were some) and, more importantly at that time, it did not free them in the border states. The worry at the time since secession had already happened in the south was that if the ‘neutral’ border states decided to join with the southern groups that the balance of power could be tipped and the country might never be repaired.
It was an order to abolish slavery in the south from Lincoln.
It’s an order from President Lincoln freeing the slaves after the Civil War.