emancipation proclamation?

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what did the EP do for the situation of the slaves?

who weer the states in which the people of thereof,...shal be in rebellion?

why was the EP a "fit and necessary" war measure?

president lincoln encourages the freed states to abstain from violence. Why do you think he does this, and who would they possibly be violent toward?

finally, president lincoln encouages the freed slaves to join the military. do you think the EP was created soley for the freedom of the slaves or to benefeit the union in fight the civil war? why or why not??

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Answer 1

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued under Lincoln’s military powers as Commander in Chief. Lincoln had no other legal authority to free slaves, in general, in the United States.

The Emancipation Proclamation could only free those slaves who were held in bondage in states or parts of states that were currently in rebellion. It could not legally apply to slaves held in the border states and parts of other slave states that were no longer in rebellion.

Lincoln had to describe the Proclamation as a “fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion” in order to try to protect its legality. Anything beyond a military measure on Lincoln’s part could possibly be considered as illegal lawmaking or as amending the Constitution in order to free the slaves.

Lincoln specifically requested that the slaves refrain from violence because one of the most frequent criticisms from white southerners was that any attempt to free the slaves would result in “servile insurrection” which was one the greatest fears of white southerners.

Nevertheless, white southerners described Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation as an incitement to slave rebellion. Jefferson Davis told the Confederate Congress that the Emancipation Proclamation was "most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man."

As the Union armies moved forward into southern territory, the Proclamation became reality as the slaves were set free by the advancing federal troops.

Even so, Lincoln had doubts about the enduring legality of the Emancipation Proclamation and pressed Congress to adopt the 13th Amendment and send it out to the states for ratification, which they did.

There were several reasons for the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. One of them, no doubt, was to recruit black soldiers into the Union Army and to deprive the South of the labor of the slaves, which was being used to support the southern war effort.

Answer 2

"The states in which the people of thereof shall be in rebellion" are any of those states that are still part of the Confederacy as of January 1, 1863. Note: Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. While it is true that the slaves in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln was separately pursuing compensated emancipation in the border states. Legally, Lincoln could not abolish slavery through ordinary peacetime measures, because the Constitution protected slavery. However, in times of war, it is allowable to sieze contraband (any enemy property that will help him win the war). Because the slaves' labor power in the agricultural sector frees up more white boys to go kill Yankees, slaves are contraband that can be siezed (and thereby freed). But note that this can happen only as a war measure. So, the Emancipation Proclamation probably emboldened many black slaves to escape, especially as Yankee troops drew near. Now, the enlisting of black regiments adds a double whammy: not only do you take away a good portion of the South's agricultural labor force, you turn that against them by now using the South's former agricultural laborers as Yankee soldiers against their old masters!

Answer 3

Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation from his heart, on a train. It really didn't change the slaves' situation much in that those who owned them ignored it and those to whom it applied either didn't know it existed or, if they did, didn't believe it made them free. It actually didn't. Look to the Bill of Rights for that one.
It's almost a living thing as opposed to a speech. He was immortalizing the Battle at Gettysburg, it wasn't a political platform.
Lincoln was giving a eulogy - not a speech or a law freeing the slaves.
Look at it from that angle and you'll have a completely different "take" on it.

Answer 4

Well it actually only freed the slaves of the south, it did not free the slaves in the middle states. Lincoln knew that if he freed the middle states before the war was over, it might lead to trouble.

Answer 5

See : "Emancipation Proclamation" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_proclamation

Answer 6

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