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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. • September 1862: following Antietam, Lincoln issues preliminary decree that unless rebelling states return to Union, their slaves will be freed • January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation is issued by Lincoln, declaring

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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  1. EMANCIPATIONPROCLAMATION

  2. EMANCIPATIONPROCLAMATION • September 1862: following Antietam, Lincoln issues preliminary decree that unless rebelling states return to Union, their slaves will be freed • January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation is issued by Lincoln, declaring all slaves in areas of rebellion as free home

  3. CONFEDERATE REACTION home

  4. UNION REACTION INDIFFERENCE ANGER home

  5. UNION ANGER • Immigrants in the Union were mad because they now had to compete with freed blacks for jobs • Many found Lincoln to be hypocritical in freeing slaves only where the Union did not have control •Very few were impressed with the proclamation; most were confused home

  6. UNION INDIFFERENCE • The goal of many from the Union was to preserve the Union, not to free slaves • Most from the Union wanted to stop the expansion of slavery, not necessarily the existence of it home

  7. EFFECTS home home

  8. EMERGING RACISM • Emergence of racist organizations (like the KKK) formed shortly after • Many more free blacks meant much more strict segregation • The proclamation did not call for equality between blacks and whites, so blacks were still seen as inferior and treated accordingly home

  9. UNITY • Soon passed 13th Amendment in 1865, making slavery illegal in all states • White northerners had more respect for blacks as a result of their military contributions • Division of states by free and slave was no longer an issue home

  10. CONFEDERATE FEAR • Southern economy was dependent on slave labor • Union would not honor Fugitive Slave Act (Contraband of War) • Feared the vast amount of freed slaves that would now fight for the Union home

  11. FAILING RESTRAINT • Southern slave owners tried to keep the proclamation a secret • Word of the proclamation spread • Many southern slaves ran away after learning about their freedom, and the slave owners lost control • Many slave owners were at war, so the slaves were less carefully watched home home

  12. AFRICAN AMERICAN REACTION home

  13. SOUTHERN SLAVE REACTION • News of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South by word of mouth •Caused confusion among slaves, but gave them hope • Despite slave owner efforts to suppress the slaves, many ran away upon news of the proclamation home

  14. GREAT BRITAIN SUPPORT •Most of Great Britain abolished slavery in 1834 •In issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln would gain British support •Lincoln knew this was important because the Union relied on a power like Britain siding with them and not the Confederacy home

  15. UNION BLACK REACTION • Runaway slaves in the Union were previously held as “Contraband of War” •(Confiscation Acts) • When proclamation went into effect, the runaway slaves in the union were freed at midnight home

  16. PRESSURE FROM ABOLITIONISTS •Abolitionists called for immediate emancipation of slaves • Lincoln knew the Proclamation would appear positive and exhibit the strength of the union home

  17. Lincoln’s Reasoning 200000+ home

  18. FREED SLAVES FIGHT FOR UNION •200, 000 Slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation fought for the Union •Lincoln realized that blacks fighting on the side of the Union was beneficial to the Union’s victory home

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