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Best Answer: The Emancipation Proclamation greatly impacted the South. Plantation owners lost many of their slaves; thus losing their crops. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy of the South. The freed slaves went North and joined the Union Army which was a major factor for the North winning the Civil War.
President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves in Confederate states, on New Yearâs Day in 1863. Word didnât reach the African-American slaves of Galveston, Texas, until June 19, 1865, when a force of two-thousand Union soldiers arrived and informed them of their freedom.