The Emancipation Proclamation
September 22,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC, On September 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all the slaves in the states in rebellion if those states did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. The extent of the Proclamation’s practical effect has been debated, as it was legally binding only in territory not under Union control. In the short term, it amounted to no more than a statement of policy for the federal army as it moved into Southern territory.
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This guy was a Republican, right?
Part of the party that was founded with the primary purpose of freeing the slaves by fighting against the pro-slave Democcrat party, correct?