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∙ 5y agoAccording to the Emancipation Proclamation, former slaves were to be "received into the armed services of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service." This means that they would have the opportunity to join the military and participate in the defense of the United States.
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∙ 5y agoThe proclamation doesn't provide for opportunities. It stated that the slaves in states in rebellion were free. Nothing more.
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The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders provided by President Abe Lincoln in 1862 and 1863. They freed slaves in both Union and Confederate states. However, these proposals did little, until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865 making slavery illegal.
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He held a cabinet meeting to determine if Antietam provided enough of a victory to allow the publication of the Proclimation. Even at that, the Proclamation did not go into effect immediately, but was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 1863, to give the rebelling states the opportunity to rejoin the Union before losing their slaves.
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Had provided for the emancipation of slaves.
It worked in that it provided a symbolic gesture. As written, it applied only to those regions that were AT THAT TIME in rebellion against the Union. If they were in rebellion, they were not going to what the Union government told them to do. Slavery was not outlawed until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was enacted in December 1865- about 2 years after the proclamation, and 8 months after Lincoln was dead.