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What was the immediate effect on President Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

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What was the immediate effect on President Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Nothing immediate-and of course it freed no slaves-the only ones being “freed” were those in the states that had seceded. Its purpose & effect was to keep other nations from aligning themselves with the Confederacy.