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What does Emancipation proclamation mean?

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Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1 1863
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By President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy).
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