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: They felt that no price, including bloodshed, war, or disunion, was too great to pay in the cause of ending slavery and racial prejudice. Active participation in the cause and face-to-face confrontation with slaveowners was held in high esteem among these abolitionists; and many traveled to the South to speak out at meetings, denounce slavery proponents, and conduct escaping slaves along the Underground Railroad. They went so far as to suggest that those who believed in gradual emancipation or colonization were actually serving as covert supporters of slavery by allowing free blacks to remain among them only as “inferior beings.” Race-based slavery had promoted a type of equality among all whites regardless of their social status. 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: