What was the role of the Emancipation Proclamation in the formulation of Northern trategy and war goals?

Answer 1

These sites should be of some help with that question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/26.2/tap.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/slavery.htm