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    From Slavery to FREEDOM

    Jan 01, 2022 2 minutes
    by Judith Lee Hallock and Andrew Matthews

    President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. On that day, he declared, all enslaved people who were held in Confederate states still in rebellion were free. Formerly enslaved men had the opportunity to actively fight for their freedom when

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