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The Emancipation Proclamation
An Indirect Effect
By Jon Mandros
Background
• After the battle of Antietam on September 17,
1862, Abraham Lincoln decided to use the
“victory” as an excuse to take up the issue of
slavery in the war
• He stated that slaves in any state or territory
still in rebellion against the United States
would be freed or emancipated
The Motives
• Lincoln hoped that Confederate states would be
afraid of losing their slaves and would rejoin the
Union to keep them
• He wanted to find a loophole through the Dred
Scott Case ruling to get rid of slavery
• He only freed slaves outside the Union so that he
wouldn’t upset the slave states on the border
• His main objective was to preserve the Union and
keep the United States whole
The Proclamation
• Issued on September 22,
1862
• Declared that all slaves in
states still against the Union
on January 1st, 1863 would
be freed
• Allowed freed blacks in the
North to serve in the Union
army
• Made slavery an official
issue in the war
The Effects
• Not a single slave was freed:
1. All border states in the Union kept their slaves
2. The Confederacy didn’t acknowledge the
document
• By the end of the war, over 200,000 blacks
had served in the Union Army
• Great Britain and France who
had already banned slavery could
not give the Confederacy their
Black regiment in
the civil war
support
Effects Continued
• Slaves did everything they
could to sabotage the
southern war effort
• Many African Americans saw
it as a large step towards
equality
• The document led to the
ratification of the 13th
amendment which banned
slavery throughout the U.S.A.
Sectionalism
• The Emancipation
Proclamation reflects
the theme of
sectionalism because
the Civil War was a war
of sectionalism, and the
proclamation was a
major document in that
war.