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What did Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation do in 1862?

A. It freed all of the slaves in the North and the South.
B. It freed all slaves in any southern state not controlled by the Union.
C. It freed the slaves only in the border states.
D. It freed only the slaves in the Union

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It freed all slaves in southern states not controlled by the union
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B. The Emancipation proclimation freed all slaves in southern states not controlled by the union. Any slave that made it to a Northern controlled union state was a free man.

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