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jan 1, 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation

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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after the Union victory at Antietam. The declaration reads, 'all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

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jan 1, 1863
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~ 163 years ago