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Reconstruction and Its Aftermath. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted--that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites.
On September 17 the bloody Battle of Antietam gave Lincoln the opportunity he needed. He issued the preliminary proclamation to his cabinet on September 22, and it was published the following day. 5. The Emancipation Proclamation didnât actually free all of the slaves. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didnât apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union.