Proclamation that we might not have looked at but is very important to

understanding the civil war. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on

September 22, 1862 and it declared slaves “forever free.”(p.152) This

proclamation was very damaging to the Confederate army. It would end all

slavery in the states that where fighting in the war against the Union. And as

Wicker states “and from that point on, the European recognition that the

Confederacy so desperately sought would seem an endorsement of

President Lincoln had written the proclamation way before it was

issued. He was advised not to have it declared until the Union had a victory.

The Confederate army was making its way up to Baltimore and winning

most of the Battles. But on September 17 the Union had a victory and the

50’s and 60’s could have not been that bad if we never had the

end of the paper all of the aggression towards the black community in the

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