The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order that was issued January 1, 1863 from Abraham Lincoln. This order was the first attempt to free slaves from southern slaves, or known as the rebellious states. The slaves that are now free had options, many went to the union and joined its forces. Along with taking its advantages to having a better life.
The black community that was know free would travel from their southern locations to the north. With the travel changes most blacks would join the forces of the union and became apart of segregated platoons, and being lead by white soldiers. Once establishing themselves, and being great soldiers of the union, and fight for their rights as U.S. citizens, they would start to have plantations.
Along with freed slaves now going up north to lead new lives, fighting and supporting the union,you had slaves starting to run away from their plantations and looking for places of solitutue. One place that slaves would flee to was Ft. Monroe in Hampton, Va. The Contraband Act, when the union were harboring the runaway slaves fand would provide them places of shelter.
In conclusion, the emancipation proclamation started to establish the freedom of slaves, causing the change in the politics. After the ending of the war we are starting to go into the reconstruction era. In 1865 we have the 13th amendment was ratified, making slavery illegal. With the new rules of slavery being illegal black codes were established