The proclamation that Lincoln used to free slaved in the Southern States during the Civil war. This did not, however, free slaves in the “border” states, states in the southernmost part of the Union who still had slavery. This was virtually ineffective in the South because the Confederacy was already defying Union’s orders. Freeing the slaves helped them to gain international support, as most of Europe had already disposed of the practice.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.

Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.

From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery’s final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom.

The original of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, is in the National Archives in Washington, DC. With the text covering five pages the document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signature page by a wafered impression of the seal of the United States. Most of the ribbon remains; parts of the seal are still decipherable, but other parts have worn off.

The document was bound with other proclamations in a large volume preserved for many years by the Department of State. When it was prepared for binding, it was reinforced with strips along the center folds and then mounted on a still larger sheet of heavy paper. Written in red ink on the upper right-hand corner of this large sheet is the number of the Proclamation, 95, given to it by the Department of State long after it was signed. With other records, the volume containing the Emancipation Proclamation was transferred in 1936 from the Department of State to the National Archives of the United States.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

no one became freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. It utilized in straightforward terms to “states then in insurrection against the federal government” (ie. the south). needless to say they simply surpassed over it. It did no longer stick to to slaves in “dependable” states (ie. the north). It became issued by Lincoln with one purpose, and one purpose in straightforward terms, in innovations. It became a political gadget to steer away from Britain and France from recognising the Confederacy. popularity after Jan 1st 1863 might have meant that Britain and France may be recognising a team of states battling to maintain slavery against the will of their federal government, that they could never do. It did although replace the theory of the purpose of the conflict. For Lincoln the conflict became nonetheless (and became continually in straightforward terms) with regards to the protection of the Union. for huge numbers of northerners although, this became an precis concept that appeared to be of little magnitude to them. If the south had to pass their very own way, then why no longer enable them to? yet after the proclamation human beings ought to rightly say that the conflict became approximately freeing the slaves. That became a much extra noble (and ideal) reason to be battling for. So, in a feeling, it helped to develop and look after help for the conflict in the north. and that i’m fairly specific Lincoln knew this is a side-result too. in the long term it created the parable that the conflict became approximately slavery. It wasn’t. Slavery became the catalyst that brought about the conflict to ensue whilst it did, however the adjustments between the northern and southern perspectives of ways forward for the country have been plenty deeper and wider than purely slavery.

i’m lazy too, but really? abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclimation during the civil war.1861-1865. it basically freed all the slaves–but only those in confederate states. states with slaves that were a part of the union got to keep theirs. the irony. type in emancipation proclimation in google! (i think that’s what the emancipation p. is, it’s been awhile……….

The emancipation proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln. It proclaimed slaves in all conderate slaves free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation