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The emancipation proclamation issued by president Lincoln

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the proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are and henceforward shall be free.
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The emancipation proclamation issued by president Lincoln freed all of the slaves in the United States during the Civil War--although many remained enslaved illegally in the South.
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