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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Definition & Legal Meaning

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An executive proclamation, declaring that all persons heldin slavery in certain designated states and districts were and should remain free. It wasissued January 1, 1S03, by Abraham Lincoln, as president of the United States andcommander in chief.

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