Amendments and Emancipation - GED Social Studies

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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued during                     .

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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, by President Abraham Lincoln. The Proclamation formally stated that the slaves living in the territories currently in open rebellion were now and forever free.

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