Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

How did it effect slavery in 1863?

To end slavery and racism, It abolished slavery, but still people were racist so they set up Jim Crow laws of segregation. And people still are racist

There were several reasons that Lincoln announced and implemented the Emancipation Proclamation at the end of 1862, early 1863. His basic goal was to turn the war from a political focus to a morally based focus. First, Lincoln was in a difficult situation, militarily. The North had lost most of the battles that had been fought, and many Northerners were beginning to grumble about the war. Lincoln hoped that the change to a moral focus