That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United
States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the
military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to
repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...
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