The emancipation proclamation by Lincoln marked the transition from war to preserve the union where war was an activity restricted to the battlefield to a total war, seeking to destroy the south. It also speeded up the death of the Confederate by depriving them of 3.5 million workers who would have been to their aid. The proclamation also ended the British and French threat of aiding the Confederacy. Emancipation being a very great step in the Transformation of America also has a very great effect on the history of America. The Emancipation facts make it stand out in the history of America (Krensky, 2012).
This Proclamation as a war measure was applied by Lincoln with a sole intention to cripple the Confederacy while still very careful to respect the limits of his authority. He applied this to the southern states that were …show more content…
capital invested in the slave, insurance against their illness or death and flight from service. This wasn’t as big a cost as starting to hire workers in the farms after emancipation. Now seeing that Slave labor was cheaper than hiring workers, this meant a decrease in profits in the masters’ farms (Howell, 2006).
National productivity and Gross output
Enslaved African Americans had their own unique traditional ways of revolting against the slave owners that came up due to poor treatment of the slaves. The slaves would openly show their discontent by shirking their duties, injuring the crops, faking illness and interrupting the normal working routine. This resulted to the slaves becoming less productive. After emancipation, the slaves were declared free. After slavery, some of the men were recruited into the Union Army, and others worked independently in their own firms without disrupted work schedules, and this meant greater output in the national GDP (Krensky,
This Proclamation as a war measure was applied by Lincoln with a sole intention to cripple the Confederacy while still very careful to respect the limits of his authority. He applied this to the southern states that were …show more content…
capital invested in the slave, insurance against their illness or death and flight from service. This wasn’t as big a cost as starting to hire workers in the farms after emancipation. Now seeing that Slave labor was cheaper than hiring workers, this meant a decrease in profits in the masters’ farms (Howell, 2006).
National productivity and Gross output
Enslaved African Americans had their own unique traditional ways of revolting against the slave owners that came up due to poor treatment of the slaves. The slaves would openly show their discontent by shirking their duties, injuring the crops, faking illness and interrupting the normal working routine. This resulted to the slaves becoming less productive. After emancipation, the slaves were declared free. After slavery, some of the men were recruited into the Union Army, and others worked independently in their own firms without disrupted work schedules, and this meant greater output in the national GDP (Krensky,