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What did the do Emancipation Proclamation do?

When did it pass? (Provide a date and context. What was going on at the time?)
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What did the do Emancipation Proclamation do? When did it pass? (Provide a date and-example-1
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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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