Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln recited The Emancipation Proclamation. A document that was said to be the most important and influential speeches he gave.This document freed more than four million of the slaves held in captivity. However not all of them were freed seamlessly. 20,000 to 50,000 of the slaves in the Confederate states were freed instantly, but their was no way to enforce the law in the rebellious states as well as the border states until the Union army came. Therefore it took a while longer for those slaves to be liberated. When the Union started taking over those states, the slaves finally got their freedom.
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