Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free? A. all slaves except those in the border states B. all slaves in Union territories C. no one, as it was not recognized in the South D. all slaves in the United States E. any former slave who resided in the North

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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.".

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