The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in Confederate states. It did not immediately free slaves in border states loyal to the Union, as Lincoln did not want to antagonize them. While it did not immediately free all slaves, it helped the Union war effort by gaining support from other countries opposed to slavery and encouraged slaves in the South to escape to Union lines. The Proclamation was a major step toward abolishing slavery across the United States.

1. EMANCIPATION PROCLIMATION
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Karla Meneses
Julio Mayorga

2. IT WAS ISSUED
EMANCIPATION PROCLIMATION
ON JANUARY 1
1863 , BY
ABRAHAM
LINCLON

3. FACTS & INFORMATION
“It's the document signed by Abraham Lincoln
which ordered all the slaves in states fighting against
the Union to be freed. This did NOT happen, but it
helped the Union because people in other countries
against slavery came to help the North because the
Proclamation stated that the North was against
slavery.”
 Slaves escaped and moved South. with the
addition of more salves each day 4 million, by July
1865

4. FACTS
“"We show our sympathy with slavery by
emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them
and holding them in bondage where we can set them
free." Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did
not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the
Union by setting their slaves free. “
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5. FACTS
 At the end of the war almost 200,000 black soldiers
and sailors were involved in the war.
 When the Proclamation was issued, at the same
time, Lincoln wasn’t liked by the many Democrats in
America.
 Northern State: Emancipation saw Lincoln’s
executive order as a cowardly and hypocritical.
 Southern states: would not have the benefit of
manpower to the former slaves in their states.
 At the end the slavery was received very well by
those countries who had already proclaimed
themselves to be slave free.

6. FACTS
 The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all
slaves in the United States. It free only those slaves
living in states not under Union control.

7. NO FREEDOM FOR MANY A WAVE OF ESCAPES
SLAVES
 Attacks made at this time as the Emancipation
Proclamation freed only the slaves over which the
Union had no power.
 The places that were allowed to have slaves:
border states and southern states.
 People had heard about the freedoms available in
the northern states
 Slaves quickly escaped to Union lines

8. WORK CITED
 Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863;
 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/purpose-and-
effects-of-the-emancipation-proclamation.html
 What did the emancipation proclamation do to
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ipation_proclamation_do_to_the_US