When it comes to Abraham Lincoln people will accept anything as factual, which is why all the myths of Lincoln have actually dominated history for so long. Many believe that the Emancipation Proclamation is solely about honest Abe being a just man and freeing all the slaves with his executive power as sitting president. Lincoln himself stated that it was actually a war tactic strategically planned to cripple the south. If Lincoln’s 1863 article is so dedicated to the freeing of slaves then why were
January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued what we now call the Emancipation Proclamation. Through this executive order, every enslaved person living in areas controlled by the Confederacy was now, legally, freed. Though this action would earn Lincoln noble nicknames like “The Liberator” and “The Great Emancipator,” the legal repercussions of the act were ambiguous at best. Many questioned the president’s authority to issue the proclamation at all. Moreover, it did not free every slave in America––it
rejoin the crushed parts of the Confederacy and Union. This was his sole reason in freeing the slaves. In any case, Lincoln was against freeing the slaves but realize it would weaken the Confederacy. On January 1, 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, making the slaves free, and protecting the Union. Lincoln liberated the slaves to weaken the Southern protection, fortify the Federal government, and urge free blacks to battle with the Union, subsequently saving the Union. President Lincoln
A Closer Look at the Emancipation Proclamation With the Civil War in full swing in 1863, President Lincoln was grappling with a nation divided. Long-standing racial turmoils had finally boiled over in 1861 with the battle of Fort Sumter. The country had been thrown headfirst into bloody battles, culminating most recently with the infamous Battle of Antietam. Antietam allowed the president to issue the most important document of his career with a narrow Union “victory”and an attempt to boost low
The Emancipation Proclamation And Its Consequences During his election campaign and throughout the early years of the Civil War, Lincoln vehemently denied the rumour that he would mount an attack on slavery. At the outbreak of fighting, he pledged to 'restore the Union, but accept slavery where it existed ', with Congress supporting his position via the Crittendon-Johnson Resolutions. However, during 1862 Lincoln was persuaded for a number of reasons that Negro emancipation as a war measure
As the nation approached its third year of the civil war, The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln. On January 1, 1863, the proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Despite the expansive wording of the document the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. In the early seventeenth century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a more plentiful and cheaper
The Emancipation Proclamation: The Union’s Greatest Asset The Emancipation Proclamation was a document issued by President Lincoln, that emancipated slaves, and slowly crippled the Confederacy during the Civil War, due to how it affected the south economically and diplomatically. In the beginning of the Civil War, although, the Union possessed a larger, better equipped army, the Confederacy managed to secure victories on the battlefield. The war, which was thought to be a short one, lasted
several months, the president’s only way to combat the division was to draft the Emancipation Proclamation. The events leading up to the ratification and enforcement of the Proclamation prove that freeing the slaves was a long, arduous process that affected both sides (the Union and the Confederacy) in several ways over the following years of the war. The most prominent effect of Lincoln passing the Emancipation Proclamation was that it made the war about slavery. Though there was much controversy in
The Emancipation Proclamation Think back if you were born in the 1800’s and you had to be raised in slavery time and racism was a huge issue. How could you handle this as a child growing up with your parents struggling to take care of you or even getting taken away from your parents. The fugitive slave act came around in the 1850’s which any slave who ran away shall be captured and punished in jail and pay a fine slaves didn’t make enough money to pay fines so they would sit in prison. Slavery
Reaction to the Proclamation The Proclamation had little impact on slavery. The Proclamation only applied to places where it was under Confederate Control. The Proclamation was condemned in the South and debated in the North. Abolitionists criticized Lincoln for not going far enough. The Proclamation did nothing to free people who were enslaved in the border states. So, slaves in the Confederate states that were controlled by the Union’s force were not affected. Northerners feared that all freed