Around 25,000 to 75,000 were immediately emancipated in those regions of the Confederacy where the US Army was already in place. Even though it excluded areas not in rebellion, it still applied to more than 3.5 million of the 4 million enslaved people in the country. It proclaimed the freedom of enslaved people in the ten states in rebellion. The proclamation was directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States. 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. uch persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States. 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. Lincoln then listed the ten states still in rebellion, excluding parts of states under Union control, and continued: 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, towit: 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 authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do.
After quoting from the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, it stated: On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. In addition, the Proclamation allowed for former slaves to "be received into the armed service of the United States." As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free. The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War.
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