Summary Of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 and he issued the document after the battle of Antietam as on September 22, 1862 as a preliminary emancipation Proclamation. The document was signed early on during the war, about 2 years after the civil war was declared. The document didnt actually help that much to free the slaves in the South, because at the time the United States was basically split into two countries and the South wanted to seperate and not follow by the laws of the North. A lot of slaves were ble to escape to the North and live a free and life and some men actually joined the union army to help fight against the South, but many African Americans were still enslaved and the numbers of enslaved