Emancipation Proclamation

Early in the war slavery is was weakened in the south because when union soldiers marched in the plantations the slaves escaped and ran. Abolitionists in thought this was a perfect time to end slavery for ever so they asked Lincoln. He had a number of reasons to oppose it many northerners where against it and he wanted to maintain the union and he didn't want to anger the border states. But he decided in favor of the emancipation proclamation because he wanted to weaken the south. He sighed the bill at when the south was the weakest.

The emancipation proclamation declared all salves in confederate territory free. This did not free many slaves because they land was under confederate control so the union had trouble freeing them. The plantations were usually located far away from the union. This law also said that that northern slaves were not free. Lincoln didn't want to free all salves because he thought he didn't have the constitutional power to do so. This weakened the south and made the civil war into a war of liberation.

Abolitionists loved it but they were angry it did not free all salves. The northern democrats hated the decision because they thought it would lengthen the war. South were angry. they hated the proclamation. The union soldier welcomed the proclamation because they wanted to destroy what the rebels believed in or what made them strong. Many slaves were escaping to union lines and then becoming free and becoming soldiers.

This was a document that freed slaves in the south but not in the north.

The federal government were against enlisting slaves before the proclamation. 1800,000 black solders were in the union at the end of the war. They had lower pay than white people but they still fought just as hard. There were many regiments in the army that was all black. Black were determined to end slavery. The white officers were racist at first but quickly changed their mind.

This regiment was an all black regiment that led an attack on fort Wagner and they were very brave they later became famous and this led to the increase of African enlistment. They were brave because if they were caught they would either be executed or be turned into slaves. The emancipation changed the south and north dramatically. As the fighting continued you could tell that the american society was changing in unexpected ways.