Why did the North(The Union) decided to announce the emancipation Proclamation? What were the goals of the act ?

From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically

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