On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."" ... In stating in the Proclamation that former slaves were to be received into the armed services, the President believed that he was using congressional authority to strike a mighty blow against the Confederacy-. 4 More is the pity; the Emancipation Proclamation was still restricted to some extent in spite of all this verbosity. ... "Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately fr...

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