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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.
In recent years, it has sometimes been charged that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves, since it applied only to areas that were in a state of rebellion, and explicitly exempted the border states, Tennessee, and portions of Louisiana and Virginia. This view is incorrect.