Question: The Emancipation Proclamation is often viewed by historians as a strategy to win the Civil War. Why might they see it that way? Cite evidence from the text to support your claims. (Text Below)

“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state that is in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Gov’t of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom…
….And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States (those in rebellion)...are henceforward free...to abstain from all violence, unless necessary self-defense, and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages… And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places within the army or navy….”