The emancipation proclamation allowed the businesses to hire the former slaves and boost their production and operation of the businesses. More land could be farmed and ranched by the former slaves...
Chiefly and most urgently, it saved it from the threat of British intervention on the side of the Confederates. (Free nations abroad could no longer do this without looking pro-slavery themselves.)It...
They liked it because it would keep Britain, France or any other free nation from sending aid to the Confederates.But it did not suddenly turn the North into a nation of Abolitionists, and the...