What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
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The Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people in areas still rebelling against the United States to be free as of January 1, 1863. It did not immediately abolish slavery everywhere; nationwide abolition came with the 13th Amendment.