How Did The Civil War End Slavery

The Civil War That Ended Slavery The United States civil war began in April 1861 pitting the Northern states (Union States) against the Confederacy States (Southern States). The main duel was fueled primarily by differences between the two parties on the idea of slavery and secondarily on trade, tariffs, and states rights. Therefore, in fighting, the first aim was first to stop secession of the southern states in order to preserve the union. This however evolved into a war to end slavery and free the enslaved. For President Abraham Lincoln, a president elected strongly on antislavery terms, the task was to preserve the union by preventing further cessation and at the same time abolish slavery. A few months after elections, Lincoln went to
war to prevent further cessation whilst insisting that he was not of the idea to end slavery just then. This eventually angered those bent towards abolishment of slave trade and thus a war was waged, not to prevent cessation now but to end slavery, The seven-day battle at Richmond, Virginia in 1862 saw the Confederate armies under General Robert E. Lee defeat and force General George B. McClellan’s Union armies to retreat. This was the turning point of the civil war. On September 22, just after the Union, in retaliation, crushed the rebellion armies securing victory at Antietam, President Lincoln drafted and issued an Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation stated in part that all the slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever be free.” And thus, the civil war that was to preserve the union became a war to end slavery