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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation is an order issued by the United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and it immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as the Union armies advanced. It was also included in the amendments later on while Lincoln was still president.