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By Robert McNamara. The Emancipation Proclamation was a document signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves then held in the states in rebellion to the United States.nd as a practical matter, the slaves in the Confederacy were not free until the Union Army took possession of a region. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as part of the presidentâs role as commander-in-chief during wartime, and was not a law in the sense of being passed by the U.S. Congress.
While the United States remained an agrarian country during this period, the vast majority of the industrial development, or building of factories to turn raw materials into finished... Slavery had an overwhelming impact on the economy, politics, and society of the United States during the first sixty years of the nineteenth century. The most important effect was to divide American political culture into two increasingly irreconcilable factions until the differences exploded into a civil war.