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in what ways did the Emancipation Proclamation carry out the promises of the declaration of independence?

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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: The Declaration of Independence stated that all men should be equal, and the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves and allowed them a more equal footing.

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