What was some important aspects of the emancipation proclamation (abraham lincoln?)?

Question

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Answer 1

It freed the slaves in the Confederate States of America. The South ignored it because they  were their own country and did not allow other countries to tell them what they could do.

Answer 2

Well, for one, it ended slavery.

Answer 3

Lincoln's response to Horace Greeley's Tribune editorial is a classic of American Civil War documentation. He makes it clear in this letter that he (Lincoln) understood his chief responsibility as President of the U.S. was to preserve the Union at any cost, hence: The Emancipation Proclamation. This maneuver was not designed to finally help free slaves from their misery, but rather it was a strategy of war to help the Union defeat the Rebellious South. The intricacies and details of which slaves in select states were to be emancipated makes this very clear. He also firmly stated in his reply to Mr. Greeley that his personal conviction and desire of seeing all men free (including blacks) has not changed, but that that personal sentiment would by no means influence him one way or the other when it came to preserving the Union. If freeing all the slaves in all states would save the Union, he would do that. If freeing some of the slaves and leaving the others alone would save the Union, he would do that. And if leaving all the slaves exactly where they were would save the Union, he would do that. Lincoln knew that only a legislative act of congress in a restored Union could truly and permanently free the black slaves.This day finally came in the form of the thirteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States eight months after his death.