What were some positive effects of the emancipation proclamation?
#1-3 were the main things INTENDED by the Proclamation, #4-6 other results, some hoped for, some not really contemplated 1. ENDED SLAVERY a) First of all, let’s make this clear — NO law OR presidential proclamation is able to do ANYTHING, unless someone carries it out. In the case of the Emancipation Proclamation – a MILITARY declaration – Lincoln specifically called on the armed forces to put it into effect, that is, to free the slaves AS they were able to take control of territory. And that is exactly what they did. As a result, by the end of the war, slaves THROUGHOUT the South had been freed by the carrying out of the Proclamation. (True, some areas no longer in rebellion as of Jan 1, 1863 were not covered, but these had, by war’s end adopted new state constitutions ending slavery.) b) A note on the REST of the slaves — those in states that never seceded (and which Lincoln had been TRYING to talk into emancipating their slaves since 1861). Maryland and Missouri banned slavery by
