One September 22, 1862, the president of the Union, Abraham Lincoln, proposed the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. If I was one of his advisors I would have encouraged Lincoln to propose this Emancipation because it is a necessity to pass it in order to preserve the Union. Through threatening the South’s life style, this will help define the Union’s perception and position of the war: freeing the slaves and preserving the union. This also makes it seem that the North is fighting for a significant moral and human cause. I would have also recommended that because this would have been a good war strategy. By emancipating all the slaves in the rebellion states, this would have crippled the Confederate army. The south army depended on slaves to aid in war efforts. …show more content…
Also, it would impact their economy because if slaves were able to escape, their economy would decrease because less slaves are working on the cotton and agricultural fields. The Proclamation also impacted foreign powers involvement in the Civil War; for example, Great Britain, who first considered to support the Confederacy for its cotton economy. However, the Proclamation turned the scale because Great Britain, a potential ally of the Confederacy, did not believe in slaveryand ought to support Lincoln’s decision of emancipating and liberating the slaves. The Emancipation would have been an excellent political move from Lincoln in keeping foreign nations from aiding the Confederacy or becoming involved in the Civil War at all. Therefore, I would have recommended that Lincoln take the Emancipation Proclamationinto effect because it would define the Union’s perceptions and stands on the war, it would have crippled the South’s economy and war efforts, and influenced foreign involvement in the