Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is thought to have been a war strategy. People believe this because when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, he made slaves free only in confederate states. This strategy hurt the south and the plantation owners that lived there. By taking slaves away from plantations, the south became limited on resources. This weakened the confederacy which gave the north a better chance in the war. During the course of the Civil War, Britain relied on the south for crops such as cotton, this caused them to consider helping the confederacy in the war. However when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he made slavery a main issue in the war. Due to many people in Britain being opposed to slavery,
