The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the nation entered the third year of the Civil War. It pronounced that "all people held as slaves … might be at that point, thenceforward, and perpetually free"— yet it connected just to states assigned as being in resistance, not to the slave-holding fringe conditions of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to regions of the Confederacy that had just gone under Union control. The cautious arranging…
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