Editing Emancipation Proclamation (section)

===International impact===
As Lincoln had hoped, the proclamation turned foreign popular opinion in favor of the Union by gaining the support of anti-slavery countries and countries that had already abolished slavery (especially the developed countries in Europe such as the [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]]). This shift ended the Confederacy's hopes of gaining official recognition.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert E. May|title=The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic rim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIspT4gpgUAC|year=1995|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-061-5|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uIspT4gpgUAC&pg=PA29 29–68]|chapter=History and Mythology: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War}}</ref>

Since the Emancipation Proclamation made the eradication of slavery an explicit Union war goal, it linked support for the South to support for slavery. Public opinion in Britain would not tolerate support for slavery. As [[Henry Adams]] noted, "The Emancipation Proclamation has done more for us than all our former victories and all our diplomacy." In Italy, [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] hailed Lincoln as "the heir of the aspirations of [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]]". On August 6, 1863, Garibaldi wrote to Lincoln: "Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure".<ref>Mack Smith, p. 72</ref>

Mayor Abel Haywood, a representative for workers from [[Manchester]], England, wrote to Lincoln saying, "We joyfully honor you for many decisive steps toward practically exemplifying your belief in the words of your great founders: 'All men are created free and equal.'"<ref>Quoted in {{cite book|author=James Lander|title=Lincoln and Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science, and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QaTnoZ_uYlUC&pg=PA221|year=2010|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|page=221|isbn=9780809329908}}</ref> The Emancipation Proclamation served to ease tensions with Europe over the North's conduct of the war, and combined with the recent failed Southern offensive at [[Battle of Antietam|Antietam]], to remove any practical chance for the Confederacy to receive foreign military intervention in the war.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kevin Phillips|title=The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tsir90xfo4C&pg=PA493|year=2000|page=493|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=9780465013708}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

However, in spite of the Emancipation Proclamation, arms sales to the [[Blockade runners of the American Civil War|Confederacy through blockade running]], from British firms and dealers, continued, with knowledge of the British government.<ref>{{cite book|title=America the Great|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BL2AwAAQBAJ&dq=blockade+running+Britain+1863+Emancipation+Proclamation&pg=PA1169|author=Edward Hawkins Sisson|date=June 22, 2014|page=1169|publisher=Edward Sisson}}</ref> The Confederacy was able to sustain the fight for two more years largely thanks to the weapons supplied by British [[blockade runner]]s. As a result, the blockade runners operating from Britain were responsible for killing 400,000 additional soldiers and civilians on both sides.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/historians-reveal-secrets-of-uk-gunrunning-which-lengthened-the-american-civil-war-by-two-years-9557937.html|title=Historians reveal secrets of UK gun-running which lengthened the American civil war by two years|author=David Keys|date=24 June 2014|work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Confederate Blockade Runners|url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1933/april/confederate-blockade-runners|author=Paul Hendren|date=April 1933|publisher=[[United States Naval Institute]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=American Civil War viewpoints: It was British arms that sustained the Confederacy|url=https://www.military-history.org/blog/it-was-british-arms-that-sustained-the-confederacy-during-the-american-civil-war-peter-tsouras.htm|author=[[Peter G. Tsouras]]|date=March 11, 2011|publisher=[[Military History Matters]]}}</ref><ref name="NJGT">{{cite thesis|url=https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/fce3cc3a-b506-4cf1-a42b-4f939db75ac5/content#page=14|title=Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: Confederate Informal Diplomacy and Privatized Violence in British America During the American Civil War|author=Beau Cleland|page=2|publisher=[[University of Calgary]]|quote=British resources were, in fact, essential to the rebellion’s survival. In the face of a blockade that after 1861 made direct imports nearly impossible, the overwhelming majority of the arms and supplies that the Confederacy received from abroad passed through British colonies en route from Europe, usually on British-flagged ships, consigned to British merchants, and paid for with cotton that followed the same path out of Southern ports. Without the advantage provided by British (and to a far lesser extent, Spanish) colonies, the Confederacy had no prayer of military victory. The colonies were unsinkable, unassailable refuges in an enemy-controlled sea.}}</ref>