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Emancipation Proclamation
[ ih-man-suh-pey-shuhn prok-luh-mey-shuhn ]
noun
- 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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The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action.
Martin Luther King asked President John Kennedy to issue a new emancipation proclamation on the centenary of the first.
But the Emancipation Proclamation set his heart beating with thoughts of immortality.
But historians are already preemptively dousing our enthusiasm for the Emancipation Proclamation.
And he learned that President Lincoln had freed the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation.
A great many pious stories have been circulated in regard to the Emancipation Proclamation.
Mr. Lincoln's final emancipation proclamation excited them to a still higher frenzy.
A significant event of the war was the issuance by President Lincoln of his celebrated emancipation proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation, though scoffed at as a cry of impotence, none the less increased the general sense of crisis.
He lost no time in issuing another emancipation proclamation.
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