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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.
While many saw Lincoln as the great emancipator, still others, especially in the South, felt that the Emancipation Proclamation directly threatened their way of life, since it promised freedom to the slaves in Confederate states that did not re-join the Union by January 1, 1863.