Title: How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the war? - Quora
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How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the war?
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Content: The lowliest white man could find comfort in the knowledge that he was the legal superior of even the wealthiest black freeman. Emancipation had changed all of this, and the amendments to the Constitution that guaranteed blacks full citizenship also made them the legal equals of all white men–a circumstance that many whites found abhorrent. Jim Wayne
, B.A. from Duke University (1967)
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Originally Answered: How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the war? It had two main effects: By overtly committing the Union to the anti-slave position, they made impossible for the UK and France to support the CSA. It had been unlikely before, but there still were those in the CSA who were trying to involve foreign powers in the war. Every Union force moving through the south became a mobile emancipation force. Even slave in border states, or regions already conquered by the Union and technically not covered by the Proclamation were effected. The Union army needed recruits, and Black Americans quickly proved that they could in fact be brave and effective.