How Did Lincoln Wrote The Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln realized the change for why the war was being fought close to the time when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. When the Civil War started, Lincoln understood it as trying to the keep the United States as one nation, or as Neels said, “ Lincoln’s goal was to preserve the Union, even if the slaves were free or not” (Neels, The Civil War, lecture). The South states were trying seceded from the North because of the way the economy was changing. “The North was becoming more industrialized, where the South still wanted to keep the old fashion style from when the nation was first started” (Neels, The Civil War, lecture). However, the tides turned during “the war from understanding that the nation needed to preserve the Union to the struggle

It was the beginning of the realization for the North that “Blacks” should be treated with a little more respect than what they were being treated like currently in the South. Lincoln points out that in the Constitution of the United States that it states, “all men are equal,” and what Lincoln had decided to try and achieve. Lincoln’s first step was to have the North realize the importance of the “Blacks” were to the nation, and having them see the “Blacks” as people, one of them; not as someone who trying to take over the land. This happened to be the belief that was spreading through the South that the “blacks” were as property, and not as people. So, no, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves. However, it was a start to new meaning of the war and realization for the change. The passing of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 was what really freed the slaves once the Civil War was over. In the Thirteenth Amendment, it states in the Consitution that slavery is abolished and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime” (Roark, The American Promise: A Compact History,