Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and why?

The Emancipation Proclamation (page 1) Record Group 11 General Records of the United States. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. read more

So I don't know WHO necessarily wrote it, but the emancipation proclamation originally was though up to make the civil war more about slavery then states rights. read more

As the years passed, questions as to why the Emancipation Proclamation was written continue to be asked. Looking back, historians point to several reasons why it was penned and issued by Lincoln in 1862. read more

The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. read more