![]() Would you like to see more articles like this? The Proclamation turned the major goal of the Union war effort towards freeing the slaves and became another step towards outlawing slavery and conferring full citizenship on ex-slaves. Though slavery had been a major issue leading to the war, President Lincoln’s mission in the beginning had been to keep the Union together. The Emancipation Proclamation shifted the focus of the Civil War. None of the Confederate States complied, and Lincoln’s executive order took effect. ![]() ![]() On September 22 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation ordering the emancipation of slaves in any state or section of a state that did not end their rebellion against the Union by January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation: Shifting Focus of a Civil War In 1862, their daughter Mary, and the Emancipation Proclamation, were born. They moved to a farm in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frances retired from public life, although she never stopped writing and supporting various social reforms. Possibly relegating her ideas about marriage expressed in her story “Two Offers” to the back of her mind, Frances Watkins married Fenton Harper, a widower with three children, in 1860. A free black woman, she spent years bringing families to freedom through the Underground Railroad. ![]() Image by Dthomsen8.įrances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 24, 1825. Pictured here: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s house in Philadelphia, PA. ![]()
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