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what is the emancipation proclamation in simplest terms?
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Since the southern economy was based on cotton, which required slaves to do all the hard work, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in order to disrupt the southern economy. If nobody was working the fields then the south had no cotton to export to England, for example, and therefore no money to raise armies and weapons.
However, it should be noted that Lincoln was never a friend of blacks and thought them inferior, but it is also true he believed that slavery on the basis of ethnicity also provided a rationale to impose slavery on just about any other basis one could devise, thereby threatening the liberty of even white folks.
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I forgot the date, but it was in the 1800's I believe or late1700's. It involved Lincoln who was the president of the time deciding to free the slaves, this was met better in the North where they were treat better anyway than in the South. It led to a Civil War that the North won and gave slaves their freedom in de jure (in law) but in reality, the slaves had been left with nothing they were still slaves to the people who owned the lands they worked on, it is not until the 1950's that american blacks began to get more freedom thanks to the likes of Martin Luther King.
I am a british student, so I can only give you what we learn from my school, it may not be entirely true to the level you need, but to my knowledge, this is what happened.
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Emancipation Proclamation
Henry Louis Stephens, untitled watercolor (c. 1863) of a man reading a newspaper with headline "Presidential Proclamation / Slavery".The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.[1] On September 22, 1862, Lincoln announced that he would issue a formal emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.[2] None did return and the actual order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control. The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war (in addition to reunion), angered many Northern Democrats, energized anti-slavery forces, and weakened forces in Europe that wanted to intervene to help the Confederacy. Total abolition of slavery was finalized by the Thirteenth Amendment of 1865.
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I learned about this lyk a month ago (im 13) but emancipation proclimation is lyk lincoln freed the slaves in the south but not the north
*note that the slaves had nothing to fall back on, no rights of any sort were givin to them, they mostly went back to farm work and such*
I am not a nerd but this is lyk the only part in my U.S. Histery that i lyked so i payed lots of attention (lol')
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