The Influence Of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
The Advent of emancipation added the number of free Americans by a great deal. This transformation of status weakened the south, strengthening the North. The slaves in the south were a possible force in aiding the Confederates against the North, which would have been a grand blow to the Union government. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a genius step of weakening south, economically, socially and force wise. The European colonists and slave masters who completely depended on slave labor and slave trade would never join hands with the Union government and so were a possible force together with the Confederates. Gradual emancipation and the abolishing of the slave trade and forced labor was a stealth weapon of weakening the possible force and the South. Many freed slaves began running to Union lines, and this provided the Union with more soldiers (Howell, 2006).
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In a way, this might be true. The proclamation would only affect the Confederacy, as an act meant to seize resources of the enemies. By freeing slaves in the Confederate states, Lincoln was freeing people he did not exercise direct control over. The way that he explained the Emancipation Proclamation made it qualify for acceptance to a greater fraction of the Union army. He emphasized emancipation as a method of shortening the war. He also took resources of the South and this reduced Confederacy’s strength. The Emancipation Proclamation brought in a climate where the dark cloud of slavery was viewed as one of the vital objectives of the whole war. Overseas, now the North seemed to possess the greatest moral cause (Howell,
In a way, this might be true. The proclamation would only affect the Confederacy, as an act meant to seize resources of the enemies. By freeing slaves in the Confederate states, Lincoln was freeing people he did not exercise direct control over. The way that he explained the Emancipation Proclamation made it qualify for acceptance to a greater fraction of the Union army. He emphasized emancipation as a method of shortening the war. He also took resources of the South and this reduced Confederacy’s strength. The Emancipation Proclamation brought in a climate where the dark cloud of slavery was viewed as one of the vital objectives of the whole war. Overseas, now the North seemed to possess the greatest moral cause (Howell,