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Civil War and Emancipation
Associated Press

1861

Civil War and Emancipation

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, freeing enslaved Black people in the Confederate states on Jan. 1 1863 and allowing the newly freed Black population to enlist in the Union Army.

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