20 Facts About Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation provided that the executive branch, including the Army and Navy, "will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons".

The Emancipation Proclamation lifted the spirits of African Americans both free and enslaved; it led many to escape from their masters and get to Union lines to obtain their freedom and to join the Union Army.

Emancipation Proclamation did not have such authority over the four border slave-holding states that were not in rebellion — Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware — so those states were not named in the Proclamation.

Emancipation Proclamation allowed for the enrollment of freed slaves into the United States military.

The Union-occupied counties of eastern Virginia and parishes of Louisiana, which had been exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, both adopted state constitutions that abolished slavery in April 1864.

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Emancipation Proclamation was issued in a preliminary version and a final version.

Emancipation Proclamation was immediately enforced as Union soldiers advanced into the Confederacy.

Emancipation Proclamation's explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see.

News of the Emancipation Proclamation spread rapidly by word of mouth, arousing hopes of freedom, creating general confusion, and encouraging thousands to escape to Union lines.

Emancipation Proclamation was immediately denounced by Copperhead Democrats, who opposed the war and advocated restoring the union by allowing slavery.

Horatio Seymour, while running for governor of New York, cast the Emancipation Proclamation as a call for slaves to commit extreme acts of violence on all white southerners, saying it was "a proposal for the butchery of women and children, for scenes of lust and rapine, and of arson and murder, which would invoke the interference of civilized Europe".

Emancipation Proclamation's opponents linked these two actions in their claims that he was becoming a despot.

The Emancipation Proclamation was seen as vindication of the rebellion and proof that Lincoln would have abolished slavery even if the states had remained in the Union.

Since the Emancipation Proclamation made the eradication of slavery an explicit Union war goal, it linked support for the South to support for slavery.

The Emancipation Proclamation solidified Lincoln's support among the rapidly growing abolitionist element of the Republican Party and ensured that they would not block his re-nomination in 1864.

Emancipation Proclamation argued that Lincoln was the US's "last Enlightenment politician" and as such was dedicated to removing slavery strictly within the bounds of law.

Emancipation Proclamation did not favor immediate abolition before the war, and held racist views typical of his time.

King's most famous invocation of the Emancipation Proclamation was in a speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom .

Emancipation Proclamation finally becomes frustrated and explains it is a proclamation for certain people who wanted emancipation.

Emancipation Proclamation is celebrated around the world, including on stamps of nations such as the Republic of Togo.