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(PLEASE HELP)Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things the following, to wit:

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

–Emancipation Proclamation,

Abraham Lincoln

On which date did President Lincoln issue the proclamation?


On which date was the proclamation to be enacted?

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Answer:

September 22, 1862 and January 1, 1863

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Answer:

September 22, 1862

Jan. 1, 1863

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