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Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

How did it effect slavery in 1863?

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it abolished slavery

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User Anthony Damico
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To end slavery and racism, It abolished slavery, but still people were racist so they set up Jim Crow laws of segregation. And people still are racist
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