What did the Emancipation Proclamation actually do?

Question

I know what did (freed the slaves) but in details what did it do or change.

Answer 1

it vaulted Abe lincoln to the top!Racism is still alive and it is nasty.Things didn't get any better until MLK came along.they still couldn't vote and they still could get lynched for nothing.that was an easy 2 points:)

Answer 2

http://www.sojust.net/documents/emancipation_proclomation.html

After the Emancipation Proclomation where Lincoln freed all slaves, it began a long journey for slaves to redeem equality. However, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves. It actually only "freed" slaves who were in the South, but not those in the border states that still had slavery but decided to stay with the Union. Lincoln was still a politician and did not want to alienate the states that might give him military advantage. As for the South, those slaves were not actually freed because they were ruled by Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln. In the end, the Emancipation Procalamation simply intensified the problems and confustions between races, at least for the first few years afterwards. The famous Martin Luther King, Jr. helped fight for equality throught he Civil Rights Movement. He fought for desegregation betweem white and black people and succeeded. Although there was no more segregating legally allowed, racism still existed within people. found at http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php

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Answer 3

Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order in 1863 by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, which declared the freedom of all slaves in those areas of the rebellious Confederate States of America that had not already returned to Union control.

The proclamation made the end of slavery a central goal of the war (along with restoring the Union) and was highly controversial in the North. It was not a law passed by Congress but a presidential order empowered, Lincoln knew, by his position as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy" under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution. It first affected only those slaves that had already escaped to the Union side, but as the Union armies conquered the south, thousands of slaves were freed each day until nearly all (estimated at 4 million) were free by the summer of 1865. Some slavery continued to exist in the border states until the entire institution was finally wiped out by the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 6, 1865.

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Answer 4

The Emancipation Proclamation (which Lincoln only used as a political tool as he really was a racist who believed in the original 13th amendment which allowed southerners to keep their slaves) gradually freed slaves throughout the war and allowed all slaves to be free by a certain time.

It was given after England was about to join the war to aide the south but as soon as the war became about slavery, England backed out. Note I said after it became about slavery. This of course means that the Civil War was not originally about slavery at all.

Also, the morale of all the troops were getting pretty low after fighting for a couple years to no avail. Now having a new item to fight for, the soldiers were rejuvenated.

Answer 5

Nothing, Slavery had been outlawed in the free states(hence the free part) the statement freed those in the slave states, unfortunately the Slave states had already left the Union, and as such in their minds no longer recognized the authority of Lincoln when he said it.

It was an empty, unenforcable token gesture

Answer 6

At the time, not much. It claimed to free the slaves, but there weren't any in the North, and the South didn't recognize the authority of the Washington government.

Answer 7

It didn't change anything, because racism is still alive and breathing in the world. I think what it really did was make some lawmakers look inside their conscience and realize that they were hypocrites and lied when they said all men are created equal. Its sad because everything that was written into government supposedly for all men and women something separate always had to be created for African Americans. I wonder why that is?

Answer 8

it dropped the chains of slavery, however thats about it.

Answer 9

it didnt do a damn thing