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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared the freedom of all enslaved people in the Confederate states. It aimed to weaken the Confederacy's war effort by undermining its labor force and also allowed for the recruitment of African American soldiers into the Union Army. Although it did not immediately free all enslaved individuals, it marked a significant turning point in the Civil War and set the stage for the eventual abolition of slavery in the United States with the 13th Amendment.

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