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January 1, 1863 On New Year’s Day of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Although the Act did not immediately free slaves in pro-Union states, it did declare all slaves to be free in the Confederacy and encouraged passage of the 15th Amendment that ended American slavery in 1865. |
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