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Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using the information and evidence from the text.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...

What is one question that this document leaves out?

Describe another document that might help you answer this question.
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Answer 1

This passage doesn't answer this question:

what is the actual step/law enacted that will stop slavery?

Researching the rest of the Emancipation Proclamation will answer this question and show why this document is important in history.