What was the Emancipation Proclamation? January 1, 1863

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."

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answer; /// slavery should be outlawed in the new country, was part of the initial draft of the declaration of independence, but not part of the final

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