It is a challenge to enter Lincoln's mind and probe to see all the different hopes and angles to his issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. We do know that one of the hopes of the document was to end slavery
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The hopes of the document were to end slavery along with the hope to galvanize the war effort.
