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The cause of the emaciation proclamation was to redefine the Civil War as not only an effort to preserve the Union but also to eliminate slavery in the Confederacy.
Explanation:
The Emancipation Proclamation made it impossible for England or France to come to aid of the efforts for independence by the Confederacy. To the South the Civil War was the second Revolutionary war as they fought for independence. The Confederacy hoped that European nation would come to their assistance in the same way Spain and France had come to the aid of the colonies in the first Revolutionary War.
The Emancipation of Proclamation initially did not free any slaves. The slaves in the slave states of Maryland and Kentucky that were part of the Union were not freed. The slaves in the Confederate states were declared free by the north but this was ignored by the slave owners in the south.
Only later in the war as Northern armies successfully invaded Southern States were the slaves in those areas set free.
