Emancipation Proclamation

(from “Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom”)
- Issued in January 1863, declaring slaves free in those areas still fighting against the Union, and said nothing about slaves behind Union lines
- Limited because even after it was passed, blacks were not 100% free, and they were still not seen as equal to whites.
- Zinn writes: “What happened to blacks in the Union army… gave some hint of how limited the emancipation would be…Off-duty black solders were attacked in northern cities… where cries were heard to ‘kill the nigger’”.
- While victory over the Confederacy was said and done, there were still people against the idea of blacks being free. Blacks were not seen an equal to whites.
- “Emancipation without Freedom”