General objective of this lecture is to present on what motives lay behind Lincoln’s issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. Here briefly describe on What was the Emancipation Proclamation; What effects did the Emancipation Proclamation have on slaves and why was the Emancipation Proclamation issued.