The Helios Biblios Hour (book of the SUN) Emancipation Proclamation 2016

 Emancipation Proclamation The document declared that if the Confederacy did not cease its rebellion by the first of the year, then all the slaves in Confederate-held territory would be freed. It excluded slaves in the Union border states and Southern areas controlled by the Union military on that date. The policy was aimed at inducing the Confederacy to surrender rather than lose their slaves, and it was based on what Lincoln considered to be a president’s augmented constitutional authority during a national emergency.The Confederacy did not take the offer, so the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. Thereafter, to the original federal war aim of restoring the union was added the goal of freeing the slaves. As the Union military forces advanced across the South, thousands of slaves were freed, with many serving in the Union military. It took, though, the postwar Thirteenth Amendment (December 1865) to free all of the slaves and to abolish the institution of slavery.