Can you please help me with this question. It's about the Emancipation Proclamation.?

Question

Identify events that happened after the Emancipation Proclamation involving African Americans helping the Union in the Civil War. Explain how these events are related.

Answer 1

Mr B has provided a nice collection of the LATER events you asked for. But if I understand you, you also wanted to know HOW the Emancipation Proclamation relates to those events (Mr B alludes to this in his general statement about the Proclamation 'moving Lincoln closer' to Frederick Douglass's position, but does not explain it.)

In fact, Lincoln made SPECIFIC provision for the enlistment of "colored troops" in the Proclamation. Note the following section:

"And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service."
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html

A couple of related notes (responses to others' remarks):

(1) The claim that the Proclamation "freed no one" is absurd. Of course, in the narrow sense, NO proclamation by a President could ever, of itself accomplish such a thing -- or hardly anything!! But the Proclamation specifically directed the military, as the President did have the authority to do, to see that it was carried out. Now OBVIOUSLY they might or might not succeed -- that's ALWAYS the case. But legally the Proclamation DID free the slaves, and its provisions WERE carried out so that, by the war's end it had accomplished the freeing of ALL slaves in 'rebel territory'

(Note that this is as much as Lincoln himself had the Constitutional authority to do under his 'war powers'... Meanwhile he urged slave states that had NOT seceded to emancipate their own slaves --which nearly all finally did-- AND he fought for passage of the 13th amendment to secure the end of slavery in the WHOLE country.)
Note in the following clips from the Proclamation, how Lincoln himself directs the MILITARY to carry it out.. and legally/Constitutionally justifies this act of his as "commander in chief" acting under "military necessity"

"by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion. . . .

"And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. . . .

"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity. . . . "
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html

(2) It is incorrect to simply explain the Emancipation Proclamation as a device (ploy?) for preventing international support for the Confederacy. That may well have been ONE consideration, but there were OTHERS, and some of those were arguably MORE important to Lincoln's purposes.

Civil War scholar Stephen Oates summarized the lot of them thus:

"We now know that Lincoln issued his proclamation for a combination of reasons: to clarify the status of the fugitive slaves, to solve the Union's manpower woes, to keep Great Britain out of the conflict, to maim and cripple the Confederacy by destroying its labor force, to remove the very thing that had caused the war, and to break the chains of several million oppressed human beings and right America at last with her own ideals."
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=3&subjectID=1

Note that the issue YOU raised is included. One very important reason for the act was to recruit MORE MANPOWER for the fight, while at the very same time DEPRIVING the South of the use of that manpower to support its efforts. In fact, this pair of reasons, which strengthens the Northern military effort while weakening the Confederacy's, is a key part of the Constitutional JUSTIFICATION Lincoln gives -- of "military necessity" (as cited above).

By the way, the campaign, after the Proclamation, to recruit 'colored troops' succeeded BRILLIANTLY. Indeed, the valor and exemplary performance of these troops --something like 180,000 of them-- gained them much respect in the North, and did much to persuade people that they DESERVED full rights... even convincing people that it would be appropriate to extend them the right to vote.

(Lincoln himself took note. By April 1865 he was suggesting expanding the franchise. Bitter irony that his public remarks about this were overheard by one John Wilkes Booth, who then and there decided that he would not simply kidnap the President, as had been his plan, but KILL him.)

Answer 2

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in September 1862, after the Army of Northern Virginia retreated south across the Potomac following the battle along Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

It was issued in September and took effect January 1, 1863. It didn't free anyone, it stated that any person held in bondage in any state, that state then being in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. It was going to take military success by Union forces on Confederate soil to actually liberate anyone. Except in the west, up to that time, the Union Army showed no real sign they could make that happen.

It did move Lincoln nearer to what Frederick Douglass had been agitating for, units of what were then called "Colored" troops. The 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry was one of the earlier units formed. Two of Frederick Douglass' sons served under Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in that outfit.

I have found a chronology of the service of African American Soldiers in the war, and I have attached it.

Answer 3

The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves from the states in rebellion. Lincoln used it to keep European countries from siding with the south. They would not be willing to take sides with the side that favored slavery. He was waiting for some good news so that his move wouldn't seem like an act of desperation. The outcome of the Battle of Antietam offered him the chance to make his proclamation.

Answer 4

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves and was one cause of the Civil War.

Answer 5

research it yourself and let us know what u find out.