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PLZ HELP. Did the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) truly change the lives of African-Americans in the United States? Include politics, society, and economics in your response. Be thorough with your ANSWER

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Black Americans were permitted to serve in the Union Army for the first time, and nearly 200,000 would do so by the end of the war. the Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the permanent abolition of slavery in the United States
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It did in a way the emancipation proclamation did remove slavery in the United States, but still many people in the south were able to find ways to oppress African-Americans by way of Forced labor of black men who had been arrested. Another way that blacks continued to be oppressed was with the jobs that they had access to. Many freed slaves did not have enough resources to new places so they began a process known as sharecropping with their previous masters. Sharecropping is a rental of a small plot of land by a landowner in exchange for labor by the borrower.

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