Question

Which issue did the Emancipation Proclamation bring to the forefront during the Civil War? giving women equal rights as men keeping the Union together freeing African-Americans from slavery ending the use of child labor

Answer 1

The Emancipation Proclamation was declared by President Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the American Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in the states that were in revolt against the union were declared free. Therefore, the issue which the Emancipation Proclamation addressed was the freeing of African Americans from slavery.