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It freed the negros being held as slaves and abolished the practice of slavery in the United States.

No, the thirteenth amendment did that. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the negros in the deep south that were in southerners' hands. Most of the southern farmers ignored it because they saw it as the government taking away the way to their livelihood, and the US government couldn't make them do anything about it. It did not free slaves held by northerners. It did not make former slaves citizens.

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