EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION TO FREE SLAVES IN US

 

The first and the last page of the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by the then-American President Abraham Lincoln on First January 1863 in the White House, Washington DC, America to free slaves in the Confederate States. Issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the third year of the US Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation changed the moral tone of the war. It meant that "all persons held as slaves" within rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." It also announced the inclusion of black men into the Union army and navy and almost 200,000 joined by the war's end. The document had its limitations; slavery was not outlawed in border states or confederacy states already under Union control. Five pages long, it is kept today in the National Archives in Washington DC. 

The Confederate States of America (CSA) was a short-lived Government in the Southern United States during the American Civil War. It comprised eleven U.S. slave states that declared secession - South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. They warred against the United States during the American Civil War. The capital of the CSA was Montgomery, Alabama until May 29, 1861, then Richmond, Virginia until April 2-3, 1865, and finally Danville, Virginia until April 10, 1865. During the American Civil War, the Union was used to refer to the United States Federal Government in Washington DC, and the states that remained loyal to it. The Union was led by President Abraham Lincoln and was opposed by the Confederate States of America. The Union was opposite to the CSA's Government, a confederation of independent states, functioning similarly to the European Union.