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The document meant to free the slaves in the South was the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states were to be set free, although it did not apply to slave-holding border states loyal to the Union. The proclamation was a pivotal step towards the abolition of slavery in the United States and changed the character of the Civil War by making the fight against slavery a central goal of the Union war effort.

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