EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

What was the historical importance of the Proclamation? In strict sense, are some historians correct when they say that the Emancipation Proclamation freed nobody?

1 Jan, 1863 was a momentous day in the history of United States of America, on that day American president Abraham Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that all the slaves in the territories of the rebels will be freed and it further emphasized to recruit African Americans in the United Sates army. The Proclamation felled in the form of a thunderbolt on the south, as it bought some shocking measures for them in ...