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The Black Experience and Emancipation
The Civil War was fought over the immoral act of slavery as well as the south wanting its independence from the Union. ... President Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation also led to changes in slavery. ... With that in mind, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation stated, "that all persons held as slaves within said designated states, and parts of states, are and henceforward shall be free. ...
The Emancipation Proclamation enraged the south and caused many people who were against slavery to become very critical of Lincoln for not freeing the slaves in the border states. This proclamation also brought about a new goal for the North, to end slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation also strengthened the North’s’ war efforts and weakened the South’s. ...
The best way to describe what happened after Lincoln announced the proclamation was in a dispatch between two Union generals, General Halleck and General Grant. ... ” (McPherson 78)
The proclamation eventually led to the thirteenth amendment, which stated, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The Emancipation Proclamation also helped bring about the fourteenth amendment, which stated, “ All persons born or naturalized in the United States… are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. ... ” Lastly, Emancipation Proclamation influenced the fifteenth amendment that said that everyone, including good law-abiding freedmen, had the right to have a voice in the elections of its leaders. ... President Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation eventually abolished slavery and led to the strengthening of the Union and weakening of the Confederacy.
Approximate Word count = 1539
Approximate Pages = 6.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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