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: Yet many whites in the federal Army, who would die for the perpetual union, could not be brought to fight alongside a black man who was willing to die to be free. The term “freedman” was adopted in official correspondence after the publication of the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, but to the soldiers in the field escaped slaves remained known as “contrabands.” Lincoln's first term as President began on March 4, 1861, his second term exactly four years later. He surrounded himself
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The Emancipation Proclamation change the war from one concerning secession to a crusade to end slavery. Yet many whites in the federal Army, who would die for the perpetual union, could not be brought to fight alongside a black man who was willing to die to be free. The term “freedman” was adopted in official correspondence after the publication of the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, but to the soldiers in the field escaped slaves remained known as “contrabands.” Lincoln's first term as President began on March 4, 1861, his second term exactly four years later. He surrounded himself with men who shared his views on slavery. True to his word, in 1862 one year before the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln signed a Congressional appropriation for $100,000 for the purpose of encouraging black colonization. Nonetheless, the radical abolitionists in the Republican Party demanded immediate, un-reimbursed emancipation, and the immediate integration of freed blacks into white society, not gradualism and separation.