African American Freedom

It connected just to states that had pulled back from the United States, leaving slavery in the border states. Maryland was one of the states allowing people to keep their slaves, since freeing slaves only applied to rebel states. It caused parts of the Confederacy to be exempted that had just gone under Northern control and the freedom it guaranteed relied on union military triumph. The Proclamation declared the acknowledgment of African Americans into the Union Army and Navy. Before the end of the war, just about 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had battled for freedom. The Emancipation Proclamation was a huge jump for African Americans in

The Emancipation Proclamation declared, based on Abraham’s war powers, that within named states and parts of states in rebellion against the United States ‘“all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free…” ’(..). Unfortunately, the Emancipation proclamation did not stop slavery nor free any slave. As the Civil War continued, it was no longer a fight for the nation’s advancement but now the war had become known as the war for human rights. Abraham Lincoln now concerned that after the war slaves would not be free, decided to formulate a constitutional amendment. The first attempt to pass the amendment failed when the House of Representatives did not reach a 2/3 vote. The amendment was stagnating for two years until finally forwarded to the States on February 1, 1865 and ratified later that year in December. This indeed made slaves within the mentioned states free but true freedom of the former slaves and blacks such as being equal citizens, was not established till

The Emancipation Proclamation was declaring January 1, 1863 as Lincoln said “all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” This was a turning point in the war even though it did not free all slaves or slaves on the Border States. The states in the Border States were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware and the emancipation did not affect them;

After the Civil War African-American expected to have their freedom, but this was not really the case. Even though the approval of the 13th Amendment freed them from their Southern masters, they were still far from being free. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that

The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and a strong order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It claimed to change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free, although its actual effect was less. Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation proclamation on September 22nd, 1882. Preliminary meant that if that the southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st 1863, and if not listed the Proclamation would go into effect. Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863. Proclaimed the freedom of slaves in ten states. Because it was issued under the President's powers,

First was Lincoln’s delivery of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Lincoln declared, “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free” (archives.gov). Lincoln’s speech was simply a declaration of policy that did not actually free any slaves. Nonetheless, it was important because it paved the way for legislative reform that Lincoln worked so hard to effect.

The period following the Civil War was a period of profound change in the South and the North following the end of slavery. For former slaves were in a difficult position following the war they had received their freedom, but not much else. For the freedmen there was a brief belief that freedom would grant them everything that they needed to succeed. They wanted an equality of rights with whites. Frederick Douglass said that “Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot” (Foner 89). African-Americans wanted these rights to guarantee their status as citizens who would not be dominated by their former Confederate neighbors. Former slaves as also wanted land to work on under their own terms. “To the former slaves, the war with

Reconstruction after the civil war gave African-Americans an extremely limited amount of freedom compared to the equality and freedom that slavery had denied them. Though they were free in theory, in practice, they were not as free at all. At times, they were so restricted that they were basically treated like slaves, even though that isn’t what they were called after reconstruction. Their freedoms in practice were not the humane freedoms they dreamed of; their sphere of freedoms had increased very minimally compared to what they had as slaves. Some of what they had to face now was arguably even more brutal than what they had to face as slaves. After the Civil War, freedom for African-Americans were only “lip deep” (Doc

Beginning in 1861, the civil war was fought over many political questions regarding slavery, yet was barely focused on the actual freedom of the slaves themselves. It is often taught that the Union fought for the freedom of slaves at the beginning of the war. However, it is more accurate to say that Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal at the beginning of the war was to reunite the Union after the majority of the slave-owning states seceded to protect their way of life: slavery. Yet, by the end of the war, the Union’s goal was to free the slaves. Though the laws securing slaves freedom and suffrage were contributed to by many, the primary driving forces behind them was the African Americans. Through their willingness to fight and support the Union cause, African Americans made the United States acknowledge their struggles and transformed the war into a fight for reconnection and freedom. Though hindered by racist people and policies, the African Americans’ participation during the war and Reconstruction greatly contributed to tremendous cultural change as well as the securing of legal rights to blacks.

On July 21st, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to the Congressmen from the border states, warning them of his upcoming Emancipation Proclamation. In it he stated, "I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually.” President Lincoln then issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in states or portions of states that still supported slavery. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.

In 1865, the United States government implemented what was known as Reconstruction. Its’ purpose was to remove slavery from the south, and give African-American’s the freedom in which they deserved. However, the freedom that they deserved was not the freedom that they received. With documents like The Black Codes restricting them from numerous privileges that white people had and the terroristic organization known as the Klu Klux Klan attacking and killing them, African-American’s were still being oppressed by their government as well as their fellow man. Slavery may have been abolished, but African-American’s were not yet given the freedom and rights that their white counterparts took for granted.

Following the Civil War, America was in shambles. There were many groups with strong, conflicting ideas of how things should be. However, most groups had one idea in common: reducing the rights of African Americans as much as possible. Freed slaves had very little freedom under the law, were treated like a lesser species by those around them, and faced dangerous environments everywhere they went. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation may have legally freed slaves, but African Americans were barely more than paid slaves.

On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, issued the first, or preliminary, Emancipation Proclamation. In this document he warned that unless the states of the Confederacy returned to the Union by January 1, 1863, he would declare their slaves to be “forever free.” During the Civil War, he was fighting to save the Union and trying not to free the slaves. Lincoln was quoted to say, “I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.” The Emancipation Proclamation illustrated this view.

In conclusion the disintegration of slavery was one among several considerations that led President Lincoln, on January 1, 1863, to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Lack of military success, pressure from anti slavery Northerners, the need to forestall British recognition of the Confederacy, and the desire to tap Southern black manpower for the Union army also contributed to the decision. The Proclamation, which applied only to areas outside Union control, did not immediately abolish slavery. But it made emancipation an irrevocable war aim, profoundly changing the character of the Civil

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and in it he declared “That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the Unite States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” This did not happen out of the blue, one has to go back and see what caused Lincoln to proclaim, that all Slaves where free. The first Country to abolish slavery from the Atlantic slave system was not the United States, but Britain. The British were one of the major forces that cause the emancipation process in the New World countries such as, The United States, Cuba, and Brazil. There were other forces