It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten confederate states and it also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Emancipation Proclamation completely changed the meaning and purpose of civil war. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
In the next 2 and half years around 180,000 of them fought in the Union army and 10,000 in the navy, making a vital contribution to Union victory as well as their own freedom.
