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True or False? The Emancipation Proclamation was a special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free

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True. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

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