Which lines from the Emancipation Proclamation reflect the main idea of the text?
Now, therefore 1, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and
necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above
mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the
United States, the following to wit:
Arkansas, Texas Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson St. John, St Charles St. James Ascension, Assumption,
Terrebonne Lafourche St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans) Mississippi agama Florida Georgia, South
Carolina North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the countles of Berkley, Accomas....
Northampton Y York Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouthp1, and which excepted parts, are for
the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within sald designated States,
and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval
authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.