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It promises only that they " 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." It further promises that they will be received into the military services of the US. The Emancipation Proclamation makes no offer or guarantee of compensation, goods, land, money or mules.

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