Transcript Chapter 17 Section 3 “A promise of Freedom

Chapter 17 Section 3
“A promise of Freedom
 At first, the Civil
War was not a war
to end slavery.
But, once soldiers
got down to the
south and saw
slavery, people
started to rethink
the aims of the
war.
 Lincoln was against slavery, but he did not
set out to free the slaves. He wanted one
thing, to save the union. When the
opportunity came for him to free the slaves
without risking the union, he did so. Lincoln
had to be careful, though, because four of
the slave states were fighting with the union.
 Lincoln decided that he would free all slaves
in the confederacy. Those four states
fighting with the union got to keep their
slaves.
 Lincoln issued the emancipation
proclamation on January 1, 1863. This
freed all slaves in the south. This doesn’t
mean that 3 million slaves just walked out
of the south, but the emancipation
proclamation was important. It changed
the goal of the war. Now northern soldiers
were fighting to save the union and to end
slavery. Also, now that the war was about
slavery, Europe refused to buy southern
cotton or to send the south anymore
supplies. This crippled the southern
economy.
 Northern
Abolitionists
loved the
emancipation
proclamation
and
southerners
hated it.
 African Americans were eventually allowed
to fight for the union army. In the
beginning, black soldiers were
discriminated against. They were given
manual labor jobs and were paid half that
of white soldiers. As the war went on, the
pay became equal and black soldiers were
allowed to fight on the front lines. More
than 200,000 fought for the union army
and almost 40,000 gave their lives.
Sargeant William H. Carney
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw,