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What's the emancipation clock proclamation?

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The Emancipation Proclamation changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. It was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

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