Answer:
they rejoined the Union
Step-by-step explanation:
President Lincoln issued the proclamation in the midst of the Civil War. He announced on September 22, 1862 that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1st, 1863, that more than 3 million slaves in the 10 confederation states still in the rebellion would be free and would recast the civil war as a fight against slavery. It also decreed that the freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union army thereBay increasing the Inions manpower during the war.