EFFECT OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ON AFRICAN AMERICANS    5000w

To what extent did the lives of African Americans change following the Emancipation Proclamation

“I felt like a bird out of a cage. Amen. Amen. Amen. I could hardly ask to feel any better than I did that day…. The week passed off in a blaze of glory”

Houston H. Holloway, former slave, on the emancipation proclamation in 1865[1]

“I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Attributed to Harriet Tubman, on the emancipation proclamation in 1865[2]

There have been many significant events that have happened in the history of America: from the first European settlement in North America in 1565, to the Seven Years’ war and to the American Revolutionary war in 1775. But few would rival the rippling effects the end of the Civil War inflicted on America. After years of agony, humiliation and psychological pain inflicted by the white Americans on the helpless African Americans who were made to be slaves, the centuries in which they had to endure