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5h 21min, jan 1, 1863 y - President Lincoln isssues Emancipation Proclamation

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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. In a single stroke, it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free".

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5h 21min, jan 1, 1863 y
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~ 163 years ago