(the) Emancipation Proclamation
- (the) Emancipation Proclamation
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the statement made by President Abraham ↑
Lincoln on 1 January 1863 that all slaves in the ↑
Confederate States were ‘forever free’. It had no actual power to make them free, but people talk about Lincoln ‘freeing the slaves’ because of this ↑
proclamation (= announcement). It helped the North in the American
Civil War as well, by allowing black people to serve in the army and navy, and by changing the war into a fight against ↑
slavery, which caused many people in England and France to give their support to the North. The Proclamation led in 1865 to the Thirteenth Amendment to the American
Constitution, which officially ended slavery in all parts of the US.
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