EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Definition & Meaning

Emancipation Proclamation

[ ih-man-suh-pey-shuhn prok-luh-mey-shuhn ]

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noun

U.S. History.

the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, that freed the people held as slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union from January 1, 1863, forward.

Emancipation Proclamation

A proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that all slaves under the Confederacy were from then on “forever free.”

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Notes

In itself, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves, because it applied only to rebellious areas that the federal government did not then control. It did not affect the four slave states that stayed in the Union: Delaware , Maryland , Kentucky , and Missouri . Yet when people say that Lincoln “freed the slaves,” they are referring to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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