What was the effect of the Emancipation proclamation for enslaved people?

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Kyleigh Vargas

9 September, 22:36

What was the effect of the Emancipation proclamation for enslaved people?

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Itzel Shelton · Answer 1

It effectively destroyed slavery as the Union armies advanced south and conquered the entire Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed for the enrollment of freed slaves into the United States military. During the war nearly 200,000 blacks, most of them ex-slaves, joined the Union Army.

Malia Wilson · Answer 2

It effectively destroyed slavery as the Union armies advanced south and conquered the entire Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed for the enrollment of freed slaves into the United States military. During the war nearly 200,000 blacks, most of them ex-slaves, joined the Union Army.