THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Pressed January 1 1863 Strategic

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Pressed: January 1, 1863 Strategic Breakdown The President, Abraham Lincoln, has just issued the Emancipation Proclamation to take slaves from the ignorant south that believes they are a “sovereign nation”. If the south chooses not to give them up they have to give up the war. So, either way those rebels will lose something that we (the north) will gain. This has been an extraordinary triumph by our 16 th president.

Southern Slave Liberation Flip to section C for New Year celebration How lives are saved Slave’s Freedom Today, after the Proclamation was signed and issued by President Lincoln over three million slave’s identities were changed to free, in all 11 states in the dying Confederacy. Hopefully, the slaves that are still, unfortunately under the control of morbid slave owners, are freed after this dying war ends as a majority of our readers are abolitionists. Today only there were a estimated twenty to fifty thousand slaves that were freed. - Since 1802

Why Now? Many slaves are now drafted to the North for freedom What Strategic Advantage did he have issuing it now? There are many theories going around about the timing he did the Proclamation at; Abraham Lincoln has believed that slaves should be Emancipated for fourteen years and he believed that now is the best time because it was after the Battle of Antietam and if he issued the document earlier it would look like - Since 1802 a sign of retreat and now it looks like we know we are winning and are going to win.

Sources cited - Since 1802 Sources used at press: . Council on Foreign Relations, n. d. Web. 07 Feb. 2016. . "Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. " Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. N. p. , n. d. Web. 07 Feb. 2016. . PBS, n. d. Web. 07 Feb. 2016. . "Bing. " Free+slave. N. p. , n. d. Web. 08 Feb. 2016.