Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

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Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 just five days after the Battle of Antietam. It stated that if the southern states did not desist their revolution by January 1, 1863, then the proclamation would go into effect. On January 1, 1863, approaching the third year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Before the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued, the main focal point of the war was not slavery. The main focus of the war was to preserve the Union. Although when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, the freedom for slaves became the logical aim for war . The Emancipation Proclamation was meant to apply to states that had disaffiliated