The United States of America has had a resentful history on slavery. The African Americans were considered properties to their masters then. It was very much explicit at the constitution convention where the founding fathers took account 3/5 of black persons to be equivalent to three persons. The Southern states were deeply interested in slavery because of their labor on their plantations. The abolition of slavery started in the 1860 when the civil war broke out among the confederate states who were seceding to become an independence sovereign state of their own. The emancipation of proclamation by president Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery and gave African Americans their freedom.
The emancipation of proclamation argues from the declaration of independence point of view. “we hold this as self-evidence that all men are equal in the present of God” by Thomas Jefferson. Lincoln’s emancipation argued the freedom of slavery and their equality in the United States society. Lincoln believed slavery dehumanized people of color and deprived them the equal right provided everybody by law. The emancipation of proclamation allowed African American to be enlisted in the …show more content…
The southern States leaders are the main audience of the emancipation because of their insurrection against the confederate States. Lincoln issued the emancipation act to stop the civil war that was causing destruction across the country. And also stop the southern states from holding people of color as slaves. However, the southern States initially considered the emancipation to be controversy because it denied them the right to exploit slave labors. But at the end of the civil war the southern States finally accept the act of Emancipation stopped