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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freed many slaves in Confederate states during the American Civil War. This executive order declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be legally free. The Proclamation did not immediately free all slaves in the country, but it was a significant step towards the abolition of slavery in the United States.

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