The Emancipation Proclamation actually did nothing; it applied only to territory Lincoln no longer had power over. Northern states with slaves kept them until the 13th amendment. Additionally, the US was one of the last Western countries to outlaw slavery, so what impact he did have on slavery (which, due to his strategy of making slavery the defining issue of the Civil War, he did) had little impact on the world. The CSA’s slavery was actually a major reason that Britain (which otherwise favored the South) did not recognize them).

What did make him important was that he kept the US together, and, since the US became the most powerful nation in the world, that obviously impacted the world.

*Note: when I say the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing, I mean it had no effect on the legality of slavery; it did have impacts in other ways.

Thanks to abe lincoln that we are now free i bless his soul if i was born back then i would have been an abolitionist too but he went over the top became president stopped it then got shot i would have killed the man that killed abe lincoln if i was born back then what if the whites were slave i would help them out if i was a slave they wouldn’t do a damn thing to helpe me out just like both martin luhter king jr and abe lincoln i would let both blacks and whites be free now it doesn;t even matter the blacks and whites everywhere y couldn;t we have done that earlier in time duh there wasnt gonna be a abe lincoln and a martin luther king jr

Lincoln did not have slaves. His wife Mary never did either. They both were very strong in the belief that slavery was evil.

Thank you that helped a lot on my Paragraph

abe was awesome