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+EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:
+By the President of the United States of America:
+A PROCLAMATION
+
+  Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation 
+was issued by the President of the United States, containing, 
+among other things, the following, to wit:
+
+  "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as 
+slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people 
+whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall 
+be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive 
+government of the United States, including the military and naval 
+authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such 
+persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any 
+of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
+
+  "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, 
+by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, 
+in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in 
+rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State 
+or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith 
+represented in the Congress of the United States by members 
+chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified 
+voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the 
+absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive 
+evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then 
+in rebellion against the United States."
+
+  Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
+States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief 
+of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed 
+rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, 
+and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said 
+rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in 
+accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the 
+full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, 
+order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the 
+people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against 
+the United States the following, to wit:
+
+  Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, 
+Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, 
+Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, 
+including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, 
+Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the 
+forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the 
+counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York, 
+Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and 
+Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left 
+precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
+
+  And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do 
+order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said 
+designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall 
+be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, 
+including the military and naval authorities thereof, will 
+recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
+
+  And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to 
+abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and 
+I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor 
+faithfully for reasonable wages.
+
+  And I further declare and make known that such persons of 
+suitable condition will be received into the armed service of 
+the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and 
+other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
+
+  And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, 
+warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke 
+the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor 
+of Almighty God.
+
+(signed)
+ABRAHAM LINCOLN
+-------------------------------------
+
+On Jan. 1, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared free 
+all slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal 
+government. This Emancipation Proclamation actually freed few 
+people. It did not apply to slaves in border states fighting on 
+the Union side; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already 
+under Union control. Naturally, the states in rebellion did not 
+act on Lincoln's order. But the proclamation did show Americans--
+and the world--that the civil war was now being fought to end slavery.
+
+Lincoln had been reluctant to come to this position. A believer 
+in white supremacy, he initially viewed the war only in terms of 
+preserving the Union. As pressure for abolition mounted in 
+Congress and the country, however, Lincoln became more sympathetic 
+to the idea. On Sept. 22, 1862, he issued a preliminary proclamation 
+announcing that emancipation would become effective on Jan. 1, 1863, 
+in those states still in rebellion. Although the Emancipation 
+Proclamation did not end slavery in America--this was achieved 
+by the passage of the 13TH Amendment to the Constitution on Dec. 
+18, 1865--it did make that accomplishment a basic war goal and 
+a virtual certainty. 
+
+DOUGLAS T. MILLER
+
+Bibliography: Commager, Henry Steele, The Great Proclamation 
+(1960); Donovan, Frank, Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation (1964); 
+Franklin, John Hope, ed., The Emancipation Proclamation (1964). 
+
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