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n September 22, the president announced that slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.
On january 1, 1863, President Lincoln provided the emancipation proclomation.
The nation was approaching its third year in the Civil war.
The Civil War had a lot of bloodshed on both sides.
The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" in the southern states "are, and henceforward shall be free."