How did the Emancipation Proclamation support the Union's military cause?

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Holly Flores

3 November, 18:45

How did the Emancipation Proclamation support the Union's military cause?

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It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten confederate states and it also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army.

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Emancipation Proclamation completely changed the meaning and purpose of civil war. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

In the next 2 and half years around 180,000 of them fought in the Union army and 10,000 in the navy, making a vital contribution to Union victory as well as their own freedom.