Why did abraham lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation?

the emancipation proclamation was issued for multiple reasons: 1- abraham lincoln realised that the war was beginning to look like a loosing battle and saw that he needed to boost northern moral. he issued the proclamation hoping that it would encourgage the soldiers from the north on. read more

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery. read more

Lincoln made this repulsion of a Confederate invasion just victory enough to give the impression that he was issuing the proclamation from a position of strength, rather than one of desperation. read more