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  • 4 - “The Unsatisfactory Prospect Before Them”

  • from Part I - From War for Union to Military Emancipation, 1860–1862
  • John C. Rodrigue
  • Book:
    Freedom's Crescent
    Published online:
    19 January 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 100-112

  • Summary

    With Lincoln having issued preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Unionists in Tennessee and southern Louisiana undertake to organize congressional elections so as to gain exclusion from the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Lincoln encourages southern Unionists – and provides them military assistance – in their efforts. Lincoln’s Annual Message in December 1862 puts forward compensated abolition plan, providing for abolition in the rebellious states. Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, but exclusion of Tennessee and southern Louisiana do not comport with specifications in the preliminary version. Exclusions will provide opportunity for proslavery Unionists to salvage slavery, but proclamation also raises issue of how fate of slavery will factor into restoring rebellious states to the Union.