(A) Gettysburg Address
(B) ** Emancipation Proclamation
(C) Second Inaugural Address
(D) None of these
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -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."
Concept note-2: -Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom.
Concept note-3: -Despite that expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control.
Concept note-4: -Contents. On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Concept note-5: -The confederates believed that the Emancipation Proclamation was wrong as it reaped them of their labor system that had worked for many years. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout America completely leading all slaves to the freedom they deserved.