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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln, went into effect on January 1, 1863. It declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were to be set free, although it did not apply to enslaved individuals in border states or areas under Union control. This pivotal executive order aimed to weaken the Confederacy and bolster the Union's moral cause during the Civil War.

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