Emancipation of Slaves by Abraham Lincoln in 1863

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Emancipation of Slaves by Abraham Lincoln In 1836
Introduction
On January, 1 1863, the United States president Abraham Lincoln made a presidential proclamation that declared that all slaves that resided in the territory that was in rebellion against the federal government to be declared free. It is this declaration that was referred to as the emancipation of slaves. As a matter of facts the proclamation of emancipation of slaves freed few people who were slaves. The declaration of emancipation of slaves was not applicable to those slaves that were in border sates fighting on the side of union; neither did it affect slaves that were in southern areas that were already under union control. As expected, those states that were in rebellion did not obey Lincoln’s order. Lincoln being a believer in white supremacy, he was reluctant in declaring slaves being free, he initially viewed the war as away in terms of preserving the Union. However, as the pressure mounted on Lincoln to abolish slavery, and both in the country and the Congress, President Abraham Lincoln became more sympathetic to the idea. He first issued emancipation of slavery proclamation on September 22, 1862, announcing that by January 1863, slaves in those states that were under rebellion. According to Klingaman, despite the fact that the proclamation did not take effect immediately, it was actualized by the 13th amendment of the constitution on December 18, 1865.[Klingaman, William K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865. Penguin, 2001.]
This essay examines the analysis of different perspectives by the different scholars concerning the declaration by Abraham Lincoln on January, 1, 1863.
Detail Analysis of Claims by Different Scholars Concerning the Emancipation of Slaves
The emancipation of slaves in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln has attracted both praises and criticism from different quotas. There are others with the view that President Lincoln’s action for declaring emancipation of slaves in those states that were under rebellion was driven by compassion for the enslaved blacks. On the other hand, there are those scholars that harbor the opinion that emancipation was a strategy for saving the union from collapsing. There are others that are of the opinion that Lincoln’s action did not free all slaves.
Was Lincoln’s Action of Emancipation of 1863 Driven by Passion for Africans or was it a Strategy for Saving the Union?
Although there are some people who are of the opinion that the proclamation of emancipation of by Lincoln on 1863 was considered as an act of being passion to the Africans that were under slavery. According to Foner, the declaration of emancipation of slaves was not an act of passion for the Africans that were enslaved during the war. As a matter of facts Lincoln had his reservation concerning this issue. It was the pressure that he got from the people that made him to declared that the slaves that were on the side that was fighting the government to be declared free. The declaration was not applicable to other slaves that were in the south which was already under the control of the union. Oakes further posits that had it been the act of passion towards t...