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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. Freedom took a signature and a civil war to stick.

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Issued on January 1, 1863, it declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free. It didn’t immediately end slavery everywhere, but it changed the war’s meaning and paved the way for the 13th Amendment.

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