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It was given to the slaves by President Abraham Lincoln because he wanted to preserve the Union and make sure slavery didn't spread to the West. It freed the slaves in the Confederacy. It was given on 1863.

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The Emancipation Proclamation was written on September twenty-second of 1862


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