On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Emancipation means freeing someone from the control of another. It was almost the third year of the bloody Civil War, and it stated "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free". It eventually freed 3.1 million of the United State's 4 million slaves and immediately freed 50,000 of them. This helped the slaves but made the slave-owners mad. They lost their slaves and had to pay for people to work for them. But if Abraham Lincoln didn't make the Emancipation Proclamation, then we might still have slaves today.
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