HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Emancipation Proclamation, Coureur Des Bois, Intolerable Acts
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After the battle of antietam, lincoln issued the preliminary version of this statement on september 23, 1862, announcing that a final version would be issued on january. On the scheduled date, lincoln fully redeemed his promise, and the civil. War became more of a moral crusade as the fate of slavery and the south it had sustained was sealed. The character of the war was changed as lincoln declared. Basically, where lincoln could free slaves, he did not, and where he could not free slaves, he did. Many southern slaves did run away though, fleeing to union camps. Public reactions varied, as many ardent abolitionists did not think that lincoln had gone far enough but moderates thought that he had gone too far. Many union troops deserted, because they had joined the war to save the union, not to save the slaves, but new black troops joined.
