At first the British reaction to the Battle of Antietam and the preliminary announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation was that this would only create a slave rebellion within the South as the war itself became progressively more violent.
アンティータムの戦いと奴隷解放予備宣言に対する当初のイギリスの反応は、戦争自体がより激しさを増す中で、南部の中での奴隷反乱を生むだけだというものだた。