23 Dez 1862 Jahr - 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation

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Emancipation Proclamation 1863: After the victory of the Union at the Battle of Antietam. This proclamation was issued into two phases:
In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln launched a preliminary proclamation with some clear objectives. First of all, his main goal was to preserve the union. He also tried to reach an agreement with the Confederacy telling them that if they joined the Union by January 1863, they would be allowed to keep slavery. Of course the Confederacy refused.
So, in January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves within Confederate-controlled states forever free. However, this was only applicable to Confederate-controlled states; Union-controlled states weren’t impacted and they were allowed to keep slavery as it was technically legal in these regions such as parts of Virginia, Tennessee and Louisiana, and this was indeed pretty twisted.
The reactions across the Nation were varied: African Americans celebrated this as a huge achievement, taking one step forward to a more just and fairer society. In the North, the Abolitionists supported this proclamation, whereas some Northern Democrats considered this as unconstitutional. Whereas in the South, they saw this as a direct attack on their way of living and as a way to encourage Black people to rebel.

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