Question

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. What inference, or conclusion, can you draw from this passage? I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Answer 1

Answer:

I infer that this declaration isn't out and out nullification of slavery, despite the fact that it settled the freedom of slaves in the Southern states. It gave the opportunity to all slaves who might most likely escape from Southern states to get their opportunity and, on the off chance that they needed, to try out the military.

It was a war measure and not a civil rights act. Lincoln didn't state that all slaves will be free, yet just "all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States". 

Answer 2

Oh abraham lincoln didn't really care about the slaves that much. He cared more about keeping the country together and not having a split country. in order to do this he needed to win the war. But how could he do this without justifying it with something nicely packaged? he used the slaves as a vessel to win the war. as commander in chief he could pass this and it was in my opinion constitutional. <span />