The effect of the Emancipation Proclamation is huge. Abolitionists and most northerners were happy with the change but the working class and southerners were not. The Ohioan working class did not want the Proclamation because they were afraid of blacks running up north and taking all of the good jobs. Southerners and slave owners argued that Lincoln did not have the power to end slavery because slaves were property of the owners and that taking property without due process is against the constitution. Either way the Proclamation went into effect whether or not if people agreed with it.
I like how you make it sound like Abe man-handled the U.S. i think the government (presently) should take a good look at the stupidity and Obama should man-handle those darn republicans. . .
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