What did lincoln's emancipation proclamation state?

It officially stated that slavery would end, the road was paved for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.

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