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The Significance of the Emancipation Proclamation

When the civil war began, the United States was fighting a war that held the nations unity in its grasp. The southerners fought to secede the Union and establish themselves as a separate country while Lincoln fought to keep the country united. Near the end of the Civil War, Lincoln set into a place the Emancipation Proclamation, which changed the emotions attached to the war. It was no longer about sovereignty; it transformed into a fight against slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation immediately ended slavery in the states that now called themselves the Confederacy, but excluded boarder and northern states because it only targeted states that were causing a problem. Despite the immediate result of freeing the slaves in the confederacy and changing the reason for the war, The Emancipation Proclamation had a minute effect on the people it was actually supposed to help but its unforeseen consequences made it successful.

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