(A) Lincoln supporters
(B) Northern Abolitionists
(C) foreign governments
(D) ** the general public
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."
Concept note-2: -Answer and Explanation: The entire nation was the audience of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was not a speech given to a select group of listeners; rather, it was a presidential proclamation given using Lincoln’s war powers as Commander in Chief.
Concept note-3: -The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union’s available manpower.
Concept note-4: -Domestically, reactions were mixed. Predictably, Southern newspapers denounced the action, and reported that Jefferson Davis had announced that the confederate army would no longer exchange hostages and would kill rather than taking hostage any African-American soliders.