![]() It also changed the tenor of the war: each time the North advanced into Confederate territory, more people were freed. Those set free by the proclamation were now able to join the Union Army, resulting in over 100,000 formerly enslaved men eventually fighting for the cause of their own freedom, and that of fellow Americans. ![]() ![]() It did not free all the slaves held throughout the US: those people held in border states (loyal to the North) and Southern states already controlled by the Union were not included in the proclamation’s manumission. In the third year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation on Janudeclaring that all people held as slaves in those states “in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”. ![]()
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