Emancipation Proclamation
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What was the Emancipation Proclamation? The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by US President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War that ordered the freeing of enslaved peoples in Confederate states not yet captured by Union forces.How is Emancipation Proclamation pronounced?[ ih-man-suh-pey-shuhn prok-luh-mey-shuhn ]
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In itself, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves, because it applied only to rebellious areas that the federal government did not then control. It did not affect the four slave states that stayed in the Union: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Yet when people say that Lincoln “freed the slaves,” they are referring to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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In January of the new year 1863, the fighting further intensified as Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the Confederate states.
From Literature
And in 1891, Volk mass-produced 33-inch-tall statuettes of “Abraham Lincoln Holding the Emancipation Proclamation,” which bear an even greater resemblance to the 1860 photograph.
Strong came to see that Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation would turn Union forces into armies of liberation.
Soskin’s great-grandmother, Leontine Breaux Allen, was born into slavery in Louisiana and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
From Los Angeles Times
Most important, the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment freed millions of enslaved people.
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