It kept Britain and France from aiding the Confederates - it would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.
To allow African Americans to join the Union military
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation
To keep the union intact, in other words keep USA undivided
No the emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves immediately. instead it freed very few people because the emancipation proclamation did not apply to slaves in the border states who were fighting for the union states. it also did not act upon the slaves in the south that were already under union control.
The word reached them long before Union Troops arrived to enforce emancipation. They were free by law, but prisoners and slaves at the same moment in time.
1863
He was the president during the Civil War. also the leader of Union and the Emancipation Proclomation.
why did the emancipation apply only to the confederacy
The Emancipation Proclomation influenced the soldiers
The Emancipation Proclomation
To allow African Americans to join the Union military
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclomation
1863
it free'd all the slaves in the south
Keeping out the British, who were planning to help the Confederates. They could not do this, if the war was officially declared to be a Union crusade against slavery.
While it wasn't immediately following, the Battle of Antietam and the Union victory there gave President Lincoln the push to issue the proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863.