AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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They were released as the army got to them. It was not an immediate release of all slaves at the declaration of emancipation by president Lincoln.
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They were all released in waves
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The were all freed at once
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be free."
Detailed explanation-2: -A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free.
Detailed explanation-3: -Finally, the Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the permanent abolition of slavery in the United States. As Lincoln and his allies in Congress realized emancipation would have no constitutional basis after the war ended, they soon began working to enact a Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free.